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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
Subject: Re: gnat and heap size
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 14:35:31 -0400
Date: 2001-09-26T18:35:33+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ot75l$i64$1@nh.pace.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9osq5a$crn$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... :-)

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"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> wrote in
message news:9osq5a$crn$1@nh.pace.co.uk...
> I suspect that 2**64 is probably large enough to count up all of the atoms
> in the entire universe or something similarly absurdly large. Or at least
> all the iron oxide molecules on the planet Earth. :-) Something my
> calculator computes as 1.844674407 * 10**19. (18 quintillion, if I'm
> counting zeros correctly?)
>






  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-09-26 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-25 18:29 gnat and heap size Claude Marinier
2001-09-25 20:46 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-25 21:15   ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-25 21:49     ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-26 13:04       ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-26 13:39         ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-26 14:18           ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-26 14:27             ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-26 14:53             ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-26 17:21               ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-26 18:12                 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-26 18:35               ` Marin David Condic [this message]
2001-09-27  7:20                 ` Martin Dowie
2001-09-26 21:16               ` Pascal Obry
2001-09-27 13:07                 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-27 15:25                   ` Holographic memory (Was: gnat and heap size) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2001-09-27 16:26                   ` gnat and heap size Dale Pennington
2001-09-27 16:57                     ` Darren New
2001-09-27 16:58                     ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-27 19:19                     ` tmoran
2001-09-26 14:13         ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-27 10:39       ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2001-09-25 22:40   ` David Starner
2001-09-26  2:12   ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-26 13:36     ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-26  2:13   ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-26 13:29     ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-25 23:10 ` Dr Adrian Wrigley
2001-09-26  9:09   ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-09-26 13:58     ` The decline of programming civilization (was: gnat and heap size) Ted Dennison
2001-09-26 13:44   ` gnat and heap size Claude Marinier
2001-09-26 14:55     ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-26 20:45       ` Erik Johannessen
2001-09-27  6:12         ` Dr Adrian Wrigley
2001-09-27 18:23           ` erij
2001-09-27  9:02         ` Erik Johannessen
2001-09-27 13:27           ` Gerald Kasner
2001-09-27 17:48             ` erij
2001-09-27 14:11         ` Peter F. Gath
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