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Sounds fairly intuitive but just to be sure I ran the math (by which I mean I typed them both into Google) 2^255 = 5.7896045e+76 52! = 8.0658175e+67 EDIT: I
by reificator 9y ago
Sounds fairly intuitive but just to be sure I ran the math (by which I mean I typed them both into Google)
2^255 = 5.7896045e+76
52! = 8.0658175e+67
EDIT: I misread 2^225 as 2^255, thanks for the heads up from rzzzt.
2^225 = 5.3919893e+67, which is indeed smaller.
- rzzzt 9y agoYou entered that middle digit slightly differently: 2^225 = 5.3919893e+67 2^226 = 1.0783979e+68
- reificator 9y agoWhoops, thanks for catching that. Powers of two catch my eye.