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To: zzeeman

The original text at CTH reads:

"Two billion seconds ago it was still 1959.

Two billion seconds ago, HST had about five weeks left in office.

ruby -e "puts Time.at(Time.now - 2e9)"
1952-12-14 11:57:19 -0500

How big is a trillion? (a thousand billions).

According to Google, a trillion seconds in years = 31709.7919837646 years.

38 posted on 04/30/2016 1:41:16 PM PDT by cynwoody

To: cynwoody

Thanks, I had used your 32 years from the first calculation and got back roughly to 1952.

(Do you like ruby?)

39 posted on 04/30/2016 2:09:27 PM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")

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