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From: jurjen@cwi.nl (Jurjen N.E. Bos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Copyrighting Icons
Message-ID: <7530@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 14 Apr 88 15:08:38 GMT
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Keywords: calculation

In article <10441@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> sarrel@oboe.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) writes:
>Well, if you want to get _really_ picky, then you have to realize that
>(on the mac, at least) an icon also has a mask, which is another 16*16
>bits.  That makes the total number of icons:
>
>	2^(16*16+1) = 231,584,178,474,632,390,847,141,970,017,375,815,706,539,
>                          969,331,281,128,078,915,168,015,826,259,279,872
>

I'm sorry for you, but if you include the mask, you get 2^(16*16*2)
instead of 2^(16*16+1) cases. This is a nice example of accumulation of
errors. I'm not going to show that I can produce big numbers also,
because I have at least three programs that can do that. By the way, it
will give you some three lines of digits.
-- 
  -- Jurjen N.E. Bos (jurjen@cwi.nl)