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From: jwhitnel@csi.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Copyrighting Icons
Message-ID: <1481@csib.csi.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 88 16:14:18 GMT
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In article <10441@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> sarrel@oboe.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) writes:
>In article <585@nvuxr.UUCP> larryl@nvuxr.UUCP (L Lang) writes:
>>Hmm...  If there are 16*16 pixels in the icon, each of which may be on or off,
>>then aren't there
>>	2^(16*16) = 115,792,089,237,316,195,423,570,985,008,687,907,853,269,
>>			984,665,640,564,039,457,584,007,913,129,639,936
>>possible icons, rather than
>>	2^16      = 65536
>
>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
>

Let's get really picky.  On a Mac II, there are 8 bits to each pixal of an
icon, so you have

      256^(16*16) = 
323170060713110073007148766886699519604441026697154840321303454275246\
5513886789089319720141152291346368871796092189801949411955915049092109\
5088152386448283120630877367300996091750197750389652106796057638384067\
5682767922186426197561618380943384761704705816458520363050428875758915\
4106580860755239912393038552191433338966834242068497478656456949485617\
6035326322058077805659331026192708460314150258592864177116725943603718\
4618573575983511523016459044036976132332872312271256847108202097251571\
0172693132346967854258065669793504599726835299863821552516638943733554\
3602135433229604645318478604952148193555853611059596230656

and you can add your own commas :-).

>OK, anybody else want to show off the fact that they can use LISP to
>calculate insanely large integers?

Lisp?  Nonsense, bc!

>-=-
>Marc Sarrel			The Ohio State University


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