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Title: Nothing to see here, move along
Post by: 33Vortex on December 05, 2009, 03:01:12 PM
See Rules #4, #14
Title: Re: US National Debt Clock
Post by: ROX on December 05, 2009, 03:47:27 PM
If it were a real anolog clock it would better be described as a FAN.


ROX
Title: Re: US National Debt Clock
Post by: 68ZooM on December 05, 2009, 04:03:15 PM
looking at that just depresses my yet unborn children, Were so screwed  :devil
Title: Re: US National Debt Clock
Post by: OOZ662 on December 05, 2009, 04:29:40 PM
Wonder how exactly it's being calculated...no database that large updates that fast and if it's just a linear progression it'll be way off in a very short amount of time. They say stuff about "precise formulas," but...
Title: Re: US National Debt Clock
Post by: 33Vortex on December 05, 2009, 04:32:30 PM
It must be an approximation, but a fairly accurate one. Why? You worried it may be off by a few thousand bucks?  :D
Title: Re: US National Debt Clock
Post by: OOZ662 on December 05, 2009, 04:33:20 PM
When you're dealing with numbers in the trillions and a rapidly varying system like the economy...
Title: Re: US National Debt Clock
Post by: Heater on December 05, 2009, 04:36:22 PM
Quote from: OOZ662 on December 05, 2009, 04:29:40 PM
Wonder how exactly it's being calculated...no database that large updates that fast and if it's just a linear progression it'll be way off in a very short amount of time. They say stuff about "precise formulas," but...

Look here : www.teradata.com

And the Database in question is not the large.... compaired to some of the others :)
Title: Re: US National Debt Clock
Post by: DREDIOCK on December 05, 2009, 04:37:57 PM
INasmuch as there is only 1 possible direction for this thread to take
Think I'll sit this one IN
Title: Re: US National Debt Clock
Post by: OOZ662 on December 05, 2009, 04:38:36 PM
Quote from: Heater on December 05, 2009, 04:36:22 PM
And the Database in question is not the large.... compaired to some of the others :)

Not sure you could find a bigger jumble of numbers and equations than the entirety of the US economy besides the economy of the EU or the world as a whole.

That link is very interesting, though. Thanks.
Title: Re: US National Debt Clock
Post by: Motherland on December 05, 2009, 05:09:04 PM
Wow... a $1,000,000,000,000 bill seems a lot less expensive when you look at a $55,000,000,000,000 total debt :lol
It also has the total debt going down at around $200k/min :noid

Quote from: OOZ662 on December 05, 2009, 04:29:40 PM
Wonder how exactly it's being calculated...no database that large updates that fast and if it's just a linear progression it'll be way off in a very short amount of time. They say stuff about "precise formulas," but...
I don't think the numbers you see are real time. It gives your computer a number and a formula and it works off that until you reload the page. At least that's the way it seems to work, I left it sitting for about 5 minutes and refreshed and the numbers jumped around quite a bit.