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Article #26458

Re: Copyrighting Icons

#26458
From: Tom Littauer
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1988 15:37
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In article <304@pyuxf.UUCP> asg@pyuxf.UUCP (alan geller) writes:
>
>Close, but not quite; there are 16*16 (=256) bits in the mask, as well
>as 16*16 bits in the icon, for a grand total of 16*16+16*16 (=512) bits
>total, or
>	2^512 which I'm not even going to think about calculating,
>	except to point out that it's roughly 10^153.

That would be:

13,407,807,929,942,597,099,574,024,998,205,846,
       127,479,365,820,592,393,377,723,561,443,
       721,764,030,073,546,976,801,874,298,166,
       903,427,690,031,858,186,486,050,853,753,
       882,811,946,569,946,433,649,006,084,096

                  153
or roughly 13 x 10

Computed by bc in .03 seconds on a previous generation Amdahl 5860...
you should see a FAST machine! (BTW, this being scalar work, a Cray would
be slower).

Sorry for the irrelevance, but I got so tired of the Mac vs PC speed
claims...
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From: littauer@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Tom Littauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Copyrighting Icons
Message-ID: <29061@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 20 Apr 88 15:37:33 GMT
References: <24@imspw6.UUCP> <1522@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <1707@pixar.UUCP> <10441@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <304@pyuxf.UUCP>
Reply-To: littauer@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Tom Littauer)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale  CA
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Summary: a calculation for a friend