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What is the furthest year into the future selectable as an Iphone contacts actual birthday?

Asked by Ltryptophan (12091points) October 25th, 2010

The selection is done by a year wheel tumbler. Bonus: If this wheel existed physically what would its precise diameter be?

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OreetCocker's avatar

Can’t believe I just rolled it past 11500 and its still going! It goes back as far as 1 too!!!

erichw1504's avatar

Well, it should only go to 2012.

PhiNotPi's avatar

The furthest year might actually be the largest number possible to store in whatever format the phone is using. For example, you can store up to 254 in eight bits, but almost all computers can store things up to 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000, or 10^100, now. If this wheel existed, it would be ~3.1831*10^99 units across.

Ltryptophan's avatar

@PhiNotPi makes a valiant attempt, but I don’t think this is cased closed.

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