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They will only get caught if it's the year of the rat!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I put it to you that a variable, constant or define named "MILLISEC_PER_SEC" is never, ever, ever needed.
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Chris Maunder
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Shouldn't this be in "The Weird and the Wonderful" (with a code snippet)? 
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That's what I would think, as the SI-system is fairly logical. Then you meet someone from the UK and they tell you there's x feet in an inch.
It's also a nice shortcut, to change the display from msec to sec, just by setting this constant to "0" instead of "1000" :p
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: they tell you there's x feet in an inch.
There are: 0.0833333... feet in 1 inch.
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And then the shoe-size is not measured in feet nor inches..
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Well, obviously; they're measured in barleycorns[^]. Everybody knows that! 
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I learned not only a valuable unit today. This link enriched my view of the metric/non-metric systems. Very useful graphic[^]. Now I realize why it is so for a person familiar with all this to discover the metric system.
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You only typed five 3s. Methinks you are missing some 3s! 
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Hence the elipsis - I can't put a dot over a three reliably (there's no HTML overstrike-and-superscript tag that I know of)
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Yes I know. I was just messing with you.
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Damn. I was hoping you knew of one! 
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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U+035E s͞e͞e͞m͞s͞ to work...
OH, not sure how it works in HTML....
<sig notetoself="think of a better signature">
<first>Jim</first> <last>Meadors</last>
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0.0833
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Or the simpler option:
0.0833
(Assuming the hamsters don't eat the style.)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yeah, overline works too.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: x feet in an inch.
Yes, but that's quite a difficult value. Imperial still has some very logical measurements, such as Rod (unit) - Wikipedia[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
It's also a nice shortcut, to change the display from msec to sec, just by setting this constant to "0" instead of "1000" :p
Depending on the usage you might then get a "Division by zero" exception / fatal error popup window instead.
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Call it a feature? 
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Surely the constant should change to 1 not 0? It's a scale factor not an offset
Ken
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Let's save that modification for version 1.1, and focus on releasing 1.0, oke? 
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What's that in parsecs per fortnight?
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Personally I prefer cubits
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Is that cubits / Pirate-Ninja?
Did you know there is a unit called the sheppey - about 7⁄8 of a mile (1.4 km), defined as the closest distance at which sheep remain picturesque?
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