colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (04/28/85)
> In article <202@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes: > >... I remember reading once that the biggest address size you would > >ever need would be 200 bits. The reason for this is that there are > >2**200 atoms in the universe and it is absurd to want to enumerate more > >things than that. Any comments? > > The number of atoms argument is silly. Prime numbers are things that > people certainly want to enumerate, and their number is unbounded. > -mark Not so silly! Who could ever examine 2**200 different numbers? Still, if you're trying to simulate the _interactions_ among atoms, the number must be raised. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel