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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no 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: 2001-09-26 11:46:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: gnat and heap size Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 14:35:31 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9ot75l$i64$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <1001442590.557811@news.drenet.dnd.ca> <%26s7.4950$ev2.8194@www.newsranger.com> <9oqs5k$jjq$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9osjpt$a5l$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9osq5a$crn$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1001529333 18628 136.170.200.133 (26 Sep 2001 18:35:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Sep 2001 18:35:33 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13411 Date: 2001-09-26T18:35:33+00:00 List-Id: Just because I got curious, I found this reference: http://pages.prodigy.net/jhonig/bignum/qauniver.html Seems we've got to get to around 10**78..10**81 to approximate the number of atoms in the universe. But I don't think that this indicates we'd want to try to build a disk drive with 2**64 bytes on it any time soon... :-) MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Marin David Condic" wrote in message news:9osq5a$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?) >