Silly. No one's actually benefitted from working in IT, since the 90's!
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riverghost servicing your mum since, Wed 29 Mar 2017, 19:13,
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Can't we have a Y2k point 17?
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riverghost servicing your mum since, Wed 29 Mar 2017, 19:22,
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You don't work for Disney too, do you?
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BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Wed 29 Mar 2017, 19:23,
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You've seen my editing skills.
Highly unlikely. :P
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riverghost servicing your mum since, Wed 29 Mar 2017, 19:44,
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Glad you didn't say Y2K17...
as someone with a background in Electronic Engineering, it used to wind me up when it was popular to write the date like that in the early 2000s.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Wed 29 Mar 2017, 20:40,
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Because, it's a common shorthand in electronics to represent values of certain things by replacing the decimal point with the indicator of magnitudinal order...
So a resistor with a value of 4,700 ohms would usually be referred to as 4.7k ohms, or 4k7 for short.
So, by that means of representation, Y2k17 would mean the year 2170.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Wed 29 Mar 2017, 22:14,
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Do you really mean it?
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BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Thu 30 Mar 2017, 0:16,
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