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From: jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka)
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Subject: Re: Be Prepared...
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Date: 15 Feb 91 04:44:58 GMT
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ccplumb@rose.uwaterloo.ca (Colin Plumb) writes:

>wolfe@vw.ece.cmu.edu (Andrew Wolfe) wrote:
>>
>>Better yet;
>>
>>I have been told that it is estimated that 64-bits will address all of the
>>subatomic particles in our universe.

 [stuff about 64 not being enuf deleted]

So, lets say 233 or more bits

This would also require sub atomic memories, right?
Each represented bit would have to be a fraction of a particle
to get more bits than particles.