Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel
From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: How much Memory?
Message-ID: <341@gloria.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 27-Apr-85 20:10:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: gloria.341
Posted: Sat Apr 27 20:10:26 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 29-Apr-85 06:30:28 EDT
References: <1515@decwrl.UUCP> <202@phri.UUCP> <188@tove.UUCP>
Organization: The Jack of Clubs Precision Instruments Co.
Lines: 17

> 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

Not so silly!  Who could ever examine 2**200 different numbers?

Still, if you're trying to simulate the _interactions_ among atoms,
the number must be raised.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel