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Re: 2^64 is 10s of trillions (not just trillions)

Alexandru Petrescu <alexandru.petrescu@gmail.com> Tue, 26 July 2011 22:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: 2^64 is 10s of trillions (not just trillions)
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Le 27/07/2011 00:05, Joel Jaeggli a écrit :
> If you're commenting on v6nd draft I don't think we have any intention of connecting ~1.8 * 10^19 hosts to a subnet...

Yes, commenting on the v6nd draft.

Listening to the disxcussion it so sounde to me that these were ND 
optimizations such as to support 2^64 nodes in a subnet.

Alex

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> On Jul 26, 2011, at 5:10 PM, Alexandru Petrescu wrote:
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>> 2^64 is 10s of trillions (not just trillions) and only for anglo-saxons.
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>> 2^64 is exabytes of memory (not giga, nor tera, nor peta).
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>> I am not sure you look at adapting nd for these figures.
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