Re: controversial paper

From: Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen_at_t-online.de)
Date: 09/30/03 

Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:54:04 +0200

Mxsmanic wrote:
>
> Mok-Kong Shen writes:
>
> > I see you are a programmer employed by God for computer
> > tasks that run till the Day of Judgement :-)
>
> I don't want anyone to find oversights in my software fifty years from
> now.

How many times of '50 years' would it take for a phenomenon
of the genre of Y2K to recur, when one provides a field
(of non-variable length) of 4 digits?

M. K. Shen

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