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MILLISEC_PER_SEC is never needed

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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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      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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      Must...refrain...from...New Zealand...joke....

      cheers Chris Maunder

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        Chris Maunder wrote:

        MILLISEC_PER_SEC

        American or UK Seconds?

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

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

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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^

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                "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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                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 Chris Maunder

                  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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                  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!

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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)

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


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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"

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


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                            Yeah, overline works too.

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                            "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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                            • C Chris Maunder

                              It depends if you measure them or not.

                              cheers Chris Maunder

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                              PIEBALDconsult
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                              I can't be bothered with such fiddling small change.

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                              • C Chris Maunder

                                Must...refrain...from...New Zealand...joke....

                                cheers Chris Maunder

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                                Maximilien
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                                Oh please !!! DO IT!

                                I'd rather be phishing!

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                                • C Chris Maunder

                                  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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                                  Jorgen Andersson
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                                  It's easier in Switzerland, they use septante, octante, nonante instead of soixante-dix, quatre-vingts, quatre-vingt-dix. In Belgium they use some bastardised version with septante, quatre-vingt, nonante IIRC.

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                                  • J Jochen Arndt

                                    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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                                    Call it a feature? ;P

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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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                                      David ONeil
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                                      Relatively speaking, without it, how could you ever know that your MILLISEC_PER_SEC doesn't match mine? :|

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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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                                        Joe Woodbury
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                                        I actually disagree; I often deal with code using second, milliseconds, microseconds and even nanoseconds, sometimes with more than one unit in a function. Having a const (of some sort) declares what conversion was intended.

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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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                                          Super Lloyd
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                                          But what about ONE_SECOND_MS ?

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