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Andre Engels wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Luke Paireepinart
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rabidpoobear@gmail.com"><rabidpoobear@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Is your math correct? That's ridiculously large.
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1 year equals 3600 * 24 * 365 makes about 3*10^8 seconds.
The universe is about 15.000.000.000 years old, that's about 5*10^17 seconds.
With 1 billion combinations per second, each computer does 5*10^26
combinations in that time.
There are something like 10^70 or 10^72 particles in the universe,
thus N is about 10^100, give or take a factor of thousand or so.
N2 is equal to 5*10^17 * N * N, which we will round up to 10^220.
N3 by that same calculation will be about 10^460.
The unnamed last number that way becomes something like 10^940 (in
reality, because of all the rounding up, more like 10^930). That's
less than 1/10^600 of 10^1600 - I'd say that's dwarved by any
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Wowee! Golleeeeeee! Gosh! That sure be some fine number crunching. <br>
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Robert<br>
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