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SubjectRe: signed int for interrupts??
Marty Leisner writes:
> Now I'm confused...2**31 is a huge number.

2^31 is about 2 * 10^9.

> If you have interrupts at 1 Megahertz, (10**6), you still have a big
> enough number for 10*25 seconds of interrupts.

10^6 is about 2^20. 10^25 is about 2^83.

> There are about 10*5 seconds in a day...so we can encode years and years
> and years (how long has your linux system been running).

2^31 / 86400 is about 25000. 2^31 seconds is a little over 68 years.

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