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coldReactive
September 18th, 2009, 04:57 AM
Is there such a word? Because I just pinged someone on IRC freenode, and got this:


Reply time from [insert username]: 18446744073709551606 seconds

I put the number into google:

18,446,744,073,709,551,606 seconds = 584,554,531 millenium

NovaAesa
September 18th, 2009, 05:08 AM
Sure.

There is a megaannum (Ma) which is one million years.
There is a gigaannum (Ga) which is one billion years.
There is a teraannum (Ta) which is equal to one trillion years.

It sort of just goes on forever.

Ahh, the power of SI prefixes and the metric system.

coldReactive
September 18th, 2009, 05:12 AM
lol, thanks.

0.6 teraannums @_@