{"id":133,"date":"2006-10-07T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/nanofortnights\/"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:40:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:40:45","slug":"nanofortnights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/nanofortnights\/","title":{"rendered":"nanofortnights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim asked me how long I thought something he was waiting for would take today.  My reply was &#8220;54 nanofortnights,&#8221; which sounded a lot wittier before I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=54x10%5E-9+fortnights+in+seconds\">ran the math<\/a> and found out I had just specified 0.06 seconds.  Oops.  Then we learned that I can&#8217;t round, since 0.0653184 is typically rounded to 0.07 seconds.  Yikes.  Look what this &#8220;new math&#8221; has wrought upon us&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim asked me how long I thought something he was waiting for would take today. My reply was &#8220;54 nanofortnights,&#8221; which sounded a lot wittier before I ran the math and found out I had just specified 0.06 seconds. Oops. Then we learned that I can&#8217;t round, since 0.0653184 is typically rounded to 0.07 seconds. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}