Re: Constants you cannot help but remember

84,600 - seconds in a day
1440 minutes in a day.
80 x 24 standard terminal window size.
1024 2^10 = 1Kb
1048576 2^20 = 1Mb
299,792,458 m/s = C

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Re^2: Constants you cannot help but remember by Happy-the-monk (Canon) on Jun 09, 2004 at 12:19 UTC
1440 minutes in a day. you cant' fool me. `14400` is a ~~baud rate~~ modem speed, kind of. Cheerio, Sören	[reply]
Re^3: Constants you cannot help but remember by ambrus (Abbot) on Jun 09, 2004 at 19:30 UTC
No. 1440 is a size of a floppy disk, in kilobytes (when formatted normally).	[reply]