Re: Overflows (lisp fixnum-bignum conversion)

[dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Nick said

<<Already IBM scientists (at Boca Raton, is it?) are building prototype '3D'
computers - which use laser holography within a block of a very special
material which switches its angle of polarisation very fast at a certain
precise temperature - which promise to be able to store the equivalent of
2^64 bytes of information easily (probably a lot more). Such computers
would certainly have the potential for outsmarting humans by several orders
of magnitude. This is actually true. Sleep well!!!>

Nick if you really think that simply providing computers with 2**64 bytes
of information will magically ensure that they can outsmart humans, you
have been watching too much Startrek. Yes, I know you said potential, but
still ....