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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Two years by the numbers

And just to give you a few numbers: 2 years = 730 days = 17520 hours = 1,051,200 minutes = 63,072,000 seconds = 57,979,678,357,440,000 oscillations of Cesium-133 in the atomic clock. Okay, while that's accurate to the nearest hour as of 9 PM East African Time, I'm probably off by a few thousand seconds and several trillion Cesium oscillations. Alternatively, 2 years = 8.13% of my life. That calculation led me to discover that on the same the day that my sister will be celebrating her birthday next weekend, I will be celebrating my 9th kilo-day (I can't believe there's a link for this, but now you can calculate it for yourself, although I disagree with their counting system of calling your birthday zero, since I would call that the first day, rather than the zero-th).

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