From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: gnat and heap size
Date: 26 Sep 2001 12:21:33 -0500
Date: 2001-09-26T12:21:33-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <VtbOFeY4lZR2@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9osq5a$crn$1@nh.pace.co.uk
In article <9osq5a$crn$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:
> 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?)
>
> I doubt that it would be practically possible to construct a disk big
> enough to hold 2**64 bytes of data as a result. :-)
Certainly not such a disk that would fit into Robert Dewar's famous laptop.
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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 [this message]
2001-09-26 18:12 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-26 18:35 ` Marin David Condic
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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