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From: mark@tove.UUCP (Mark Weiser)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Out of Virtual Memory?
Message-ID: <188@tove.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 23:22:59 EST
Article-I.D.: tove.188
Posted: Mon Apr 22 23:22:59 1985
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Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD
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In article <202@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>...	I remember reading once that the biggest address size you would
>ever need would be 200 bits.  The reason for this is that there are
>2**200 atoms in the universe and it is absurd to want to enumerate more
>things than that.  Any comments?

The number of atoms argument is silly.  Prime numbers are things that
people certainly want to enumerate, and their number is unbounded.
	-mark
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