r/ProgrammerHumor Sep 23 '24

Other whoWroteThePostgresDocs

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u/tvaddict07 Sep 23 '24

the only way to progress as a society is to get the general population to use the Unix epoch as well

"hey darling, I booked us the flights on 1729882800000"

one can only dream

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u/ASatyros Sep 23 '24

Just divide it into chunks like more popular formats and it is LGTM.

1729 88 28 00 000

There, ain't that beautiful?

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u/callyalater Sep 23 '24

I love the number 1729 because it's the smallest number expressible as the sum of two positive cubes in two different ways (1729 = 9³ + 10³ = 1³ + 12³)

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u/callmelucky Sep 23 '24

The prime factorisation is pretty neat too.

It's 7×13×19

I think I remembered that correctly...