Re: [Oorexx-devel] Groan!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Chip D. <ch...@av...>]

Not to mention the curious coincidence that 2**128 is a decimal value that 
requires NUMERIC DIGITS 39 to express, which happens to be the answer to the 
Marks Factoid: How many DIGITS would it take to express the circumference of the 
known universe in units of the radius of a hydrogen atom?

-Chip-

On 10/8/09 16:18 Rick McGuire said:
> I seriously wasn't expecting to see 128-bit processors in my lifetime
> (or at least before my retirement).  And 256-bit gives you an address
> space in the range of the estimated number of particles in the
> universe!
> 
> Just for the giggle factor, 2*128 bytes would require a stack of punch
> cards approximately 1.37x10**17 LIGHT YEARS tall!
> 
> Rick
> 
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Mike Cowlishaw <MF...@uk...> wrote:
>>> [Oorexx-devel] Groan!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>>
>>> http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/enterprise/352270/microsoft-leaks-
>>> details-of-windows-8-and-windows-9
>>>
>>> I'm hoping this is a simple as just recompiling!
>> Think of it as an opportunity to leapfrog them and go straight to 256-bit!!
>>   :-))
>>
>> Mike
>>
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