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Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Calculating rollovers

I've long had a list of "magic numbers" which show up in a bunch of places, and even made a post about it back in November of 2020. You ever wonder about certain permutations, like 497 days, or 19.6 years, or 5184 hours, and what they actually mean?

I've been doing that stuff by hand in a calculator and finally decided to just do it in Javascript and put it online for anyone to try.

So, here's my latest waste of CPU cycles:

My rollover calculator.

I still haven't figured out the Crucial SSD 5184 hour thing, so it's not in there. 5124 hours, sure, I can understand that one, but 5184? 60 more?

Anyway, have fun while the world burns.