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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: VERY LARGE main memories: crypt
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Date: Tue, 9-Sep-86 13:01:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  9 13:01:51 1986
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In article <553@astroatc.UUCP> philm@astroatc.UUCP (Phil Mason) writes:
> Isn't 10^200 more like it? I didn't think those physicists used base two
> very often!

	No, physicists don't usually think in binary, and no, I didn't mean
10^200th.  A physicist would say there are about 10^40 electrons and a
computer scientist would call that about 2^200 because it's more useful
that way.  And please, no nitpicking from people claiming these numbers are
off by an order of magnitude or two.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016