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. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Friday, 11 September 2015 10:15 AM To: ozDotNet <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Odd text encoding 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
