2^1024 (was Re: magic integer converter number 62?)
2^1024 (was Re: magic integer converter number 62?)
- Subject: 2^1024 (was Re: magic integer converter number 62?)
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 02:18:36 EST
In a message dated 2/23/01 11:47:31 PM, Scott Norton wrote:
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2^1024 is a bit more than 10^307. That's a
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yotta-yotta-yotta-yotta-yotta-yotta-yotta-yotta-yotta-yotta-yotta-yotta-exa-b
it.
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Actually, using the exact binary prefixes, its a
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yobba-yobba-yobba-yobba-yobba-yobba-yobba-yobba-yobba-yobba-yobba-yobba-ebi-b
it.
Actually, using plain English syntax, that's a lotta-lotta-lotta bits. : )
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Moore's Law tells us you'll be able to buy a disk this size in 994 18-month
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time periods,
Moore's law is for CPU performance, but when I run the numbers it seems to
pretty much match the increase in hard drive capacity (!). I recall that in
1983, a 5 MB hard drive (an Apple branded ProFile) cost $1500. Today, an 80GB
FireWire drive can be had for about $400. The cost per GigaByte has gone from
$300,000 to $5 in 18 years. At that rate, a 2^1024 byte hard drive in 3492
will cost (adjusted for inflation) 4.42171830020836E-71 pennies, or well
below the margin of error of binary floating point operations which started
this thread.
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or on 23 February, 3492. That's a Wednesday.
How did you determine this? This script says it will be a Tuesday.
-- Applescript 1.5.5
-- naturally list server friendly
set workDate to (current date)
set day of workDate to 23
set month of workDate to February
set year of workDate to 3492
set vWeekday to weekday of workDate
display dialog vWeekday
--> tue
display dialog vWeekday as string
--> Tuesday
Jeff Baumann
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