On 28 Feb 2011, at 09:40, Bob Hinden wrote:

> Pete,
> 
> On Feb 27, 2011, at 11:32 PM, Pete Resnick wrote:
> 
>> I'm sorry, but how could this *not* be posted to the IETF list?
>> 
>> <http://xkcd.com/865/>
> 
> I did a rough calculation and think they would have not run out of IPv6 
> addresses :-)
> 
> I assumed a nanobot was 1 x 10^-6 M^2 and the surface of the earth was 5.1 x 
> 10^11 M^2 (from Wikipedia).  This means it would take 5.1 x 10^17 nanobots to 
> cover the earth.  The IPv6 address space is 3.4 x 10^38.  Of course, I 
> assumed only one layer deep. 

is that with a /48 or a /64 per bot?
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