22 Mar
2019
22 Mar
'19
11:01 a.m.
TD: "...apparently the term [nanocentury] originated at IBM in the 1960s. It's hard to believe that I'm the first to notice that pi seconds is roughly the same thing..." A Google books search finds a Proceedings, IBM Scientific Computing Symposium on Computers in Chemistry (1969) that has on page 92 a footnote: "A nanocentury is 3.15576 seconds."