Seems reasonable to me. Don't forget to add the shorts (node length <8).
sas On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 11:00 AM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > I get 4.75136 trillion, just under rather than over. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf > of John McKown [john.archie.mck...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2023 10:34 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Check my math? > > I got curious about how many possible different values could exist in a > dataset "node". A node can be 1 to 8 characters long. The first character > must be A-Z @#$ or 29 characters. Subsequent characters are those 29 plus > digits 0-9 and a dash (the dash was a surprise to me). Unless I goofed up, > that means that a single node can have a bit over 4.8 trillion unique > values. > > Did I do something wrong? This seems way too large a number. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
