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Jerry Johnson
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/11/03 04:51PM >>>
True, but he said "6 million digits", so if you take that literally,
he's talking about 6 million discrete characters, which would be 6
million bytes.
- Jim
Philip Arnold wrote:
>>Six million.
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>>one byte = 1 character.
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>Nope
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>You've got to think how computers store numbers
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>It's a lot less than that really <g>
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>It takes 128 bytes to store a number 308 digits long (well, just hitting
>the 308th) - positive only
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>So, getting to 6 billion digits would be less than 6 billion bytes, but
>probably around 2 billion bytes - if you want it "signed" then you'd
>have to add an extra bit onto the end
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>Still, that's a LOT of memory
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