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This article is bizarre: "The greatest programming minds are capable of using software to multiply massive integers that are bigger than the universe." What do
by marktangotango 11y ago
This article is bizarre: "The greatest programming minds are capable of using software to multiply massive integers that are bigger than the universe." What does this even mean?
- hugh4 11y agoWe could generously assume some words are missing and it means "numbers larger than the number of particles in the universe". But there's only 10^80 particles in the universe, so that's not very impressive. You could do it, rather tediously, with a pen and paper.
- eliben 11y agoHere you go: $ python >>> 10e50 * 10e90 1e+142 Waaaay bigger than the number of atoms in the universe. Consider yourself the "greatest programming mind" now. You're welcome ;-)