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I prefer this alternative:

  c_millisecs = 50000 * 60 * 1000; // 50,000 minutes



That only works for unit conversions where they're defined as ratios of each other. Nature has physical constants and engineers have environmental and design parameters that can't be written that way unless you constantly change units, which is a bad idea in a language without built-in unit checking (most of them).


I prefer

(1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 2) == 2 days




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