Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Year 292,471,208,678 problem

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The result of the debate was merge/redirect. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 14:10, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Year 292,471,208,678 problem

Little more than a silly joke - arguably it could be speedied. It's certainly not a problem. sjorford →•← 15:37, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

  • Keep until the year 292,471,208,678, or the sun burns out, or else BJAODN. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 16:06, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, it was a joke on my part. Ha, ha. Ross Uber - Talk - Contributions - 16:59, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Cute but not worthy of BJAODN Shoaler 17:16, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Wikipedia isn't a crystal ball. Capitalistroadster 18:23, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, because even if it is a joke it's accurate and weirdly interesting.
    • I don't even think it's accurate, to be honest. The Year 2038 problem article mentions that 64-bit arithmitic will put the limit at some date approximately 290 billion years ahead of 1970... So all I did was check Integer (computer science) for the signed limits for 64-bit signed integers (9,223,372,036,854,775,807), converted that from seconds to years (292,471,208,678)... without really knowing much about whether one bit was used for positive/negative... plus, I rounded up. Someone with a little more expertise in this can find the exact second at which 64-bit signed interger time will fail around 292 billion years from now. Ross Uber - Talk - Contributions - 22:57, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, interesting. Christopher Parham (talk) 19:22, 2005 May 27 (UTC)
  • Delete. Stupid, and not amusing. Quale 19:46, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect to Unix time. Accuracy is not a criterion for keeping, and interesting is in the eye of the beholder. RickK 20:07, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, nonsensical. Radiant_* 20:29, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete; 292 billion years from now the Earth will no longer exist. Seriously!
  • Delete. Joke. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 21:03, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Merge with Year 2038 problem and delete. It shouldn't be more than a footnote to that article. --W(t) 21:35, 2005 May 27 (UTC)
  • Delete 292 billion years into the future? HA! That is insane considering how the universe is only 6 billion years old. Revolución 23:51, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Merge I agree with TonySidaway, RickK, and Weyess: Merge with BJAODN or Year 2038 problem or Unix time Johntex 04:43, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Speculation de luxe. Sjakkalle 06:51, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
  • We have 292 billion years to fix this problem. Read Sun#History and future of the Sun, and know that by then, Earth won't be around to care that there is any problem. We can merge this over to Unix time, though; I think that this might be an interesting piece of trivia to add there. --Idont Havaname 07:18, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect to Unix time. JamesBurns 11:10, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Theoretically a real problem, but considering the sun is likely to go nova before the problem becomes acute, its encyclopedic significance is nonexistent. — JIP | Talk 11:15, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
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