Re: proposition for fixing Y292B bug

[Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 07:59:13PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On July 3, 2024 8:29:58 AM PDT, David Polakovic <email@dpolakovic.space> wrote:
> >I am not sure if I don't understand your solution, but extending the
> >memory designation from 64 to 128 bits, is another temporary
> >solution, which will again overflow one day.
> >
> >The sole reason why I was proposing the new "BigInt" type was to
> >store each digit of the time_c as separate element of array, which
> >could be resized (added one digit) as needed. The only limit would
> >then be the physical amount of memory in the machine.
> >
> >dpo
> >
> 
> So now you are worried about the Y5e30 problem?!
> 
> You realize that you are now talking the orders of magnitude of time for which: 
> 
> "	The estimated time until most or all of the remaining 1–10% of stellar remnants not ejected from galaxies fall into their galaxies' central supermassive black holes. By this point, with binary stars having fallen into each other, and planets into their stars, via emission of gravitational radiation, only solitary objects (stellar remnants, brown dwarfs, ejected planetary-mass objects, black holes) will remain in the universe."
> 
> I genuinely thought this whole thread was a practical joke...

And that's what I thought as unnecessary engineering churn...

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