Experimental jet-powered locomotive test bed Last year I blogged about 497 being the IT number of the beast . Why 497? Because if a product uses a 32 bit counter to record uptime, and that counter records a tick every 10 msec, then that 32-bit counter will overflow after approximately 497.1 days. This is because a 32 bit counter equates to 2^32, which equals 4,294,967,296 ticks. If a tick is...
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