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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
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Subject: Re: Be Prepared...
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.203631.29947@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 14 Feb 91 20:36:31 GMT
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In article <WOLFE.91Feb14104818@vw.ece.cmu.edu> wolfe@vw.ece.cmu.edu (Andrew Wolfe) writes:
>
>Better yet;
>
>I have been told that it is estimated that 64-bits will address all of the
>subatomic particles in our universe.


But it is woefully inadequate to describe all the possible arrangements
of atoms in a grain of sand.

Doug McDonald