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Re: Nevermind
Posted By: Louis Wu <halo@bungie.org>	Date: 4/2/08 9:34 a.m.
: I just calculated - correct me if I'm wrong - that there's just 52 595 730 : 000 minutes in : 100 000 years (counting the leap days). Even with the "American" : trillions the frequency of these simulations would be ridiculous in that : time span. The Forerunners must have began the simulations way before : the rings were first fired. Of course, we don't know (or do we?) how long : the Guilty Spark's years are, so my calculations might be completely : useless :) More than not knowing how long GS's 'years' are (we do, actually, have it on decent authority that his years are about the same as ours), we have no clue when the simulations started. You're assuming there were no tests before the first actual firing - that seems like a foolish assumption. Given that we don't know anything at all about the age of the ring, we can't really say how often it fires based on the number of tests.

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