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times.2: Fix an incorrect description in NOTES 

The text has an incorrect description in NOTES, it says
that (2^32/HZ) - 300 is about 429 million. It is correct
only if HZ=10 which does not look common today. So just
removing "(i.e., about 429 million)" is good enough.

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Signed-off-by: Naoya Kondo <kondo-naoya@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Kondo, Naoya 2016-02-26 04:34:18 +00:00 committed by Michael Kerrisk
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@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ On Linux, the "arbitrary point in the past" from which the return value of
is measured has varied across kernel versions.
On Linux 2.4 and earlier this point is the moment the system was booted.
Since Linux 2.6, this point is \fI(2^32/HZ) \- 300\fP
(i.e., about 429 million) seconds before system boot time.
seconds before system boot time.
This variability across kernel versions (and across UNIX implementations),
combined with the fact that the returned value may overflow the range of
.IR clock_t ,