Brian Beesley wrote: > On Sunday 08 June 2008 05:29, John R Pierce wrote: >> the amount of storage, and computational time for /any/ sort of sieve >> algorithm would be astronomical > > Rather more than that - if we could use every fundamental particle in the > universe to store one bit of information, we'd still need a > more-than-astronomical number of universes to do the job. > > Astronomical (and cosmological) numbers tend to fit on a single line of > print, > when expressed in decimal notation.
Is that described as being out by more than "an order of cosmos"...? ;-) OK, sorry, poor pun! Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
