Re: "Faster, More Powerful . 64 Bits!"
From: Harry Van Tassell (hairy_at_nada.com)
Date: 03/15/04
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:33:48 -0500
Eric Grange wrote:
> And to think that in a day not so far ahead users may complain
> they need to buy an extra 128 petabyte memory stick to run the
> latest psycho-visual user interface...
Yeah, I hear you but what with it being a dull Monday morning I seem to
remember that people like to attach some significant physical fact to a
number so I Googled to get an estimate of how many stars are in the sky and
found this estimate, "...concluded that about 70 thousand million million
million stars (7 x 10^22) shine down on us". That number seems big but I
remember the old classic how many grains of sand would it take to fill the
earth and remembered a number like 10^61. Some more Googling turned up this:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/archimedes/lrk_sand.html
"In today's notation, Archimedes' estimate for the number of grains of sand
that it would take to fill the then-known universe was 1 x 10^63 grains of
sand!"
But come to think of it that very difference between the numbers 10^61 and
10^63 was once used by a smart guy to impress upon me that it was a hellva
big difference. He and I decided to investigate a smaller number that most
people could relate to and, being zany chemical engineers, decided to
estimate the number of gallons of urine produced daily by the population of
Puerto Rico. We got an answer but for the life of me I can't seem to
remember the number. ;-)
--Hairy
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