From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,124905131f269735 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-27 00:18:37 PST From: "Martin Dowie" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1001442590.557811@news.drenet.dnd.ca> <%26s7.4950$ev2.8194@www.newsranger.com> <9oqs5k$jjq$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9osjpt$a5l$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9osq5a$crn$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9ot75l$i64$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: gnat and heap size Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:20:00 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 NNTP-Posting-Host: ed125012.sd.edinbr.gmav.gecm.com Message-ID: <3bb2d042@pull.gecm.com> X-Trace: 27 Sep 2001 08:07:46 GMT, ed125012.sd.edinbr.gmav.gecm.com Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!btnet-peer!btnet-peer0!btnet-feed5!btnet!newreader.ukcore.bt.net!pull.gecm.com!ed125012.sd.edinbr.gmav.gecm.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13427 Date: 2001-09-27T08:20:00+01:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote in message news:9ot75l$i64$1@nh.pace.co.uk... > Just because I got curious, I found this reference: > > http://pages.prodigy.net/jhonig/bignum/qauniver.html > > Seems we've got to get to around 10**78..10**81 to approximate the number of > atoms in the universe. But I don't think that this indicates we'd want to > try to build a disk drive with 2**64 bytes on it any time soon... :-) Why would you stop at wanting to count things as big as an atom?... ;-)