[r-t] Big search

[Richard Smith]

Mark Davies wrote:

> My Big Search has finished, uncovering a bug in my code in the process. I
> must have used a 32-bit register for the "time taken" calculation, which for
> some reason is performed in milliseconds. 2^32 milliseconds is a mere 1193
> hours, so the count wrapped over at that point.

You wouldn't be first person to make that mistake:

  http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2275

Fortunately, you weren't writing an air traffic control
system.

RAS