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It's not time units, it's just units.

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# Post-human time units # Post-human units
Computing is binary. Decimal system is ancient. Let's not live in the past and embrace the future. Computing is binary. Decimal system is ancient. Let's not live in the past and embrace the future.
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It is peculiar that in both cases `2^128` seems to be a reasonable unit of measurement and given that `256` bits should be enough, it seems like a `256` bit fixed point type equally split into integer and fractional parts is a good fundamental implementation choice until fundamental laws of physics change, and in meantime we can trim both parts in half to get a `128` bit type that is suitable for all currently known intents and purposes. It is peculiar that in both cases `2^128` seems to be a reasonable unit of measurement and given that `256` bits should be enough, it seems like a `256` bit fixed point type equally split into integer and fractional parts is a good fundamental implementation choice until fundamental laws of physics change, and in meantime we can trim both parts in half to get a `128` bit type that is suitable for all currently known intents and purposes.
It seems like `2^128/1` ratio will be one of the most important ratios in physics. It's a shame it didn't get an IEC prefix yet. It seems like `2^128/1` ratio will be one of the most important ratios in physics. It's a shame it didn't get an [IEC prefix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix) yet.