Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!richard From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Be Prepared... Message-ID: <4137@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: 15 Feb 91 13:33:23 GMT References: <1991Feb13.160718.25759@visix.com> Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Lines: 12 In article wolfe@vw.ece.cmu.edu (Andrew Wolfe) writes: >I have been told that it is estimated that 64-bits will address all of the >subatomic particles in our universe. Given that 24 litres of a gas contains 6.02 * 10^23 (which is close to 2^79) molecules, this seems implausible. -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed AI Applications Institute, ARPA: R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Edinburgh University. UUCP: ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!R.Tobin