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

Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> Tue, 26 July 2011 22:05 UTC

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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...


On Jul 26, 2011, at 5:10 PM, Alexandru Petrescu wrote:

> 2^64 is 10s of trillions (not just trillions) and only for anglo-saxons.
> 
> 2^64 is exabytes of memory (not giga, nor tera, nor peta).
> 
> I am not sure you look at adapting nd for these figures.
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> Alex
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