And what would those numbers have looked like 2 years ago? 4 years ago? 10 
years ago?

Assuming computing power doubles every 18-24 months, then that 5444 years will 
become a lot less, relatively quickly.

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but because they were concerned about the possibility of running out of bigint 
values. (Clearly it’s a pity more maths isn’t taught at schools).

My PC can do a for int loop up to 2^30 in about 20 seconds. To get to 2^63 
non-stop it will take 5444 years -- GK

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