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Article #2785Re: VERY LARGE main memories: crypt
From: Roy Smith
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1986 17:01
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1986 17:01
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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
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: VERY LARGE main memories: crypt Message-ID: <2431@phri.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Sep-86 13:01:51 EDT Article-I.D.: phri.2431 Posted: Tue Sep 9 13:01:51 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 10-Sep-86 17:42:45 EDT References: <1178@bu-cs.bu-cs.BU.EDU> <1087@ihwpt.UUCP> <553@astroatc.UUCP> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 13