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by ayy_lmao 2851 days ago
To be honest this isn't quite a big deal. Why would anyone let an airplane running for days continuously.

Just a quick calculation. If it takes 248 days = 248 * 24 * 3600 seconds to go to 1 to 2^32, then the sensors have a sampling time of 5ms so it takes a measurement at a 200Hz frequency. Not related to anything but it's nice to know I guess.

This is quite old news though. I remember it was mentioned in last year's CS50 lecture about integers.