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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.