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		abecedarius on Feb 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The machine's view of time, if nanoseconds were se... Actually 30 years or so for one human-second. (Rule of thumb for that: pi seconds is a nanocentury.)

nooneelse on Feb 16, 2012 [–]

Hey, yeah, how did I get an extra block of "000" on my number with just a copy and paste? Sorry everyone.

Anyway, I was going for human reaction time of about 0.15sec real world. So about 4.75 years in the analogy.

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