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  • L Lost User

    Chris Maunder wrote:

    MILLISEC_PER_SEC

    American or UK Seconds?

    Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

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    Rick York
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    I once had a customer tell me, "I want this process time to be ten seconds. Ten German seconds. Not American seconds." We all laughed.

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    • L Lost User

      That's what I would think, as the SI-system is fairly logical. Then you meet someone from the UK and they tell you there's x feet in an inch. It's also a nice shortcut, to change the display from msec to sec, just by setting this constant to "0" instead of "1000" :p

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      Eddy Vluggen wrote:

      x feet in an inch.

      Yes, but that's quite a difficult value. Imperial still has some very logical measurements, such as Rod (unit) - Wikipedia[^]

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      • L Lost User

        You only typed five 3s. Methinks you are missing some 3s! :-D

        Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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        OriginalGriff
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        Hence the elipsis - I can't put a dot over a three reliably (there's no HTML overstrike-and-superscript tag that I know of)

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          Hence the elipsis - I can't put a dot over a three reliably (there's no HTML overstrike-and-superscript tag that I know of)

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          Yes I know. I was just messing with you. :)

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          • L Lost User

            That's what I would think, as the SI-system is fairly logical. Then you meet someone from the UK and they tell you there's x feet in an inch. It's also a nice shortcut, to change the display from msec to sec, just by setting this constant to "0" instead of "1000" :p

            Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

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            Jochen Arndt
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            Eddy Vluggen wrote:

            It's also a nice shortcut, to change the display from msec to sec, just by setting this constant to "0" instead of "1000" :p

            Depending on the usage you might then get a "Division by zero" exception / fatal error popup window instead.

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              Yes I know. I was just messing with you. :)

              Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

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              OriginalGriff
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              Damn. I was hoping you knew of one! ;)

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              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                Damn. I was hoping you knew of one! ;)

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                :-D

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                • C Chris Maunder

                  Personally I prefer cubits

                  cheers Chris Maunder

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                  Is that cubits / Pirate-Ninja? Did you know there is a unit called the sheppey - about ​7⁄8 of a mile (1.4 km), defined as the closest distance at which sheep remain picturesque?

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                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                    Is that cubits / Pirate-Ninja? Did you know there is a unit called the sheppey - about ​7⁄8 of a mile (1.4 km), defined as the closest distance at which sheep remain picturesque?

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                    Chris Maunder
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                    Must...refrain...from...New Zealand...joke....

                    cheers Chris Maunder

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                    • L Lost User

                      Chris Maunder wrote:

                      MILLISEC_PER_SEC

                      American or UK Seconds?

                      Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

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                      Chris Maunder
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                      Daylight Saving seconds.

                      cheers Chris Maunder

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                      • P PIEBALDconsult

                        Come to think of it, are there any milliseconds in a Leap Second?

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                        Chris Maunder
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                        It depends if you measure them or not.

                        cheers Chris Maunder

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                        • C Chris Maunder

                          I put it to you that a variable, constant or define named "MILLISEC_PER_SEC" is never, ever, ever needed.

                          cheers Chris Maunder

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                          W Balboos GHB
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                          Check again - in France it may have an alternative value.* *After all, they don't have a word for 'seventy', 'eighty', or 'ninety'

                          Ravings en masse^

                          "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                          "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                            I put it to you that a variable, constant or define named "MILLISEC_PER_SEC" is never, ever, ever needed.

                            cheers Chris Maunder

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                            W Balboos GHB
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                            Or, perhaps it's needed to differentiate in regions where they use an Imperial Second instead of a regular one.

                            Ravings en masse^

                            "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                            "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                              Check again - in France it may have an alternative value.* *After all, they don't have a word for 'seventy', 'eighty', or 'ninety'

                              Ravings en masse^

                              "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                              "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                              Chris Maunder
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                              C'mon - quatre vingt dix rolls off the tongue! (and it's the reason I can only count to 69 in French when I'm drunk. The maths gets too hard)

                              cheers Chris Maunder

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                                C'mon - quatre vingt dix rolls off the tongue! (and it's the reason I can only count to 69 in French when I'm drunk. The maths gets too hard)

                                cheers Chris Maunder

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                                W Balboos GHB
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                                Chris Maunder wrote:

                                rolls off the tongue!

                                (why did you go there?) It brought to mind french cuisine, crawling off one's tongue (leaving a slime trail). I hadn't expected this type of treatment from you!

                                Ravings en masse^

                                "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                                "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                  Hence the elipsis - I can't put a dot over a three reliably (there's no HTML overstrike-and-superscript tag that I know of)

                                  Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                                  0.0833

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                                    And then the shoe-size is not measured in feet nor inches..

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                                    Well, obviously; they're measured in barleycorns[^]. Everybody knows that! :laugh:


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                                      0.0833

                                      "One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson

                                      "Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons

                                      "You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles

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                                      Richard Deeming
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                                      Or the simpler option: 0.0833 (Assuming the hamsters don't eat the style.)


                                      "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

                                      "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer

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                                      • C Chris Maunder

                                        I put it to you that a variable, constant or define named "MILLISEC_PER_SEC" is never, ever, ever needed.

                                        cheers Chris Maunder

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                                        Chris Losinger
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                                        protects against people who see "Milli-" and think "1,000,000"

                                        image processing toolkits | batch image processing

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                                        • Richard DeemingR Richard Deeming

                                          Or the simpler option: 0.0833 (Assuming the hamsters don't eat the style.)


                                          "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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                                          Yeah, overline works too.

                                          "One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson

                                          "Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons

                                          "You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles

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