Re: Mersenne: Re: Is 128 bit instruction code needed ?

[Simon Burge]

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:58:29 +0100 (MET)  Bojan Antonovic wrote:

> Realy ? But with 64 bit or 128 bit adressing space you can address
> every atom on the earth ... Once I mad a calculation about it, but I
> think that 256 bit can address 1/8 of the universe.

I seem to recall (vaguely!) that there's about 10^68 or 10^70 atoms in
the universe?  If 10^70 is the case, that's around 2^231.  2^256 is
around 10^77...

Simon.