There's a fly (or two) in my ointment

[Bob Warren]

Dear John,
774970929898949961850787500473623625 ticks, or in other words, far too long!

Regards,
Bob

John Tregea wrote:

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>> I won't waste my time complaining about it because I think it will 
>>either not be addressed, or it will take half a yonk to fix.
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>Dear Bob,
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>And if you could just clarify for me exactly how long is a yonk? 
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>I am developing a product which includes accessing distributed RDBMS around
>the world as well as scheduling and coordination of real and virtual
>meetings worldwide. Consequently, I have to include a time translation layer
>and want to include all measures of time and their equivalent durations in
>ticks.    {: )
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>Regards
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>John
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