RE: Why "multiple of 5" blocks --- was Re: buffer cache -once aga

From: Jamadagni, Rajendra <Rajendra.Jamadagni_at_espn.com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 13:37:30 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005981CD.20030513133730@fatcity.com>

Maybe they used one of those 'flawed' Pentium chips to compute

select power(2,2)
from dual
/

Raj

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Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 5:07 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L again

I've often asked myself the same question. 5 is SO computer-unfriendly.
(Especially when you realise that nowadays the Oracle code seems to assume
for convenience that there are 1024 milliseconds in a second) And yes, at least v6. Possibly a hangover from something even earlier.

Regards
Jonathan Lewis

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