POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Intelligence test : Re: Intelligence test Server Time
5 Sep 2024 01:22:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Intelligence test  
From: Le Forgeron
Date: 20 Nov 2009 03:20:22
Message: <4b065146$1@news.povray.org>
clipka a écrit :

> Darren New schrieb:
>> Invisible wrote:
>>> That's almost as good as the threadDelay function, that doesn't tell
>>> you whether the argument is seconds or miliseconds or picoseconds or...
>>
>> Probably biliseconds.
> 
> Billyseconds?

no, bilisecond, from the USA/MS nomenclature :
 bil : 1000 mil   (million, billion...)
and the isecond unit (inverted second)

milisecond is 1/1000 second,
so bilisecond is 1000 times that, 1/1000000 s.

(From the thread about MS api)

I now expect a precision of femtosecond in timestamps...


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