Comment on When does the future begin?

corroded@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Gork@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  t = t + 5.391247 × 10^-44 seconds

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  • corroded@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    long double future_time = static_cast(time(nullptr)) + (5.391247L * pow(10.0L, -44.0L))

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    • drbluefall@toast.ooo ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I feel like at some point, you’d need arbitrary precision and arbitrarily-sized real numbers in order to meaningfully represent it.

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