Jud McCranie wrote:
>
> At 10:48 AM 10/30/98 +1100, Simon Burge 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...
> >
> No, it is around 10^78, maybe 10^80. That would be 259 to 265 bits. So the
> previous statement about 256 bits being enough for 1/8 of the universe is
> right, using the 10^78 figure.
Hmm. Imagining the size of the universe as, one planet earth for
every atom in planet earth, is certainly a concise belief. In hopes
of derailing our cyber-implementiation discussions into full-blown
basic cosmology, just how exactly are these rough figures arrived at?
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