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From: sls@beaner.cs.wisc.edu (Steve Scott)
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Subject: Re: Be Prepared...
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Date: 15 Feb 91 17:32:38 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.

  Well, I agree that 2^64 is BIG, but it's nowhere close to that big.  The
number of atoms in the universe is something like 10^72 (give or take a
few orders of magnitude :-) ).

--Steve