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From: stevec
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1987 20:34
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1987 20:34
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>In article <6200@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, newton2@violet.berkeley.edu writes:
>> Gee, even *I* can count at 1E90 hz, and "exhaustion" is the proper
>> term for the result of trying to count even to 10E6 at that rate.
>>
>> doug maisel
>No you can't 1E90 = 1.0 * (10 ** 90) and not 1 ** 90. Or have you
>forgotten the scientific notation :-)?
Well, now that we have agreed about the number in question,
lets ask, what pyhysical phenomena occur at that frequency?
Lets see.
The speed of light is about 3E8m/s. So, in one
clock pulse at the given frequence, light can travel
3E-82m.
Whats the radius of, say, a proton? If memory serves it is within
20 orders of magnitude of 1E-20m.
Nuff said.
Steve
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-vision!fornax!sfu_taurus!stevec From: stevec@sfu_taurus.cs.sfu Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: NSA advertisment Message-ID: <50400001@sfu_taurus> Date: 8 Dec 87 20:34:00 GMT References: <4781@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Lines: 28 Nf-ID: #R:cit-vax.Caltech.Edu:4781:sfu_taurus:50400001:000:753 Nf-From: sfu_taurus.cs.sfu!stevec Dec 8 12:34:00 1987