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Where are you getting these numbers? Google says they get ~2 trillion searches per year. 40 trillion searches over 20 years (way too many) would be 2^44 searche

Where are you getting these numbers? Google says they get ~2 trillion searches per year. 40 trillion searches over 20 years (way too many) would be 2^44 searches. https://searchengineland.com/google-now-handles-2-999-trillion-searches-per-year-250247 https://searchengineland.com/google-now-handles-2-999-trilli... (And they don’t even need to store all searches for all time for this, thanks to Bloom filters.)

rdiddly 7y ago
The whole point was that 2^1471 is wrong.
- madez 7y ago
  It is roughly 1.15^(365*20). That it is wrong was clear from its size. I wanted to use it's falseness to show that the assumptions are incorrect. Which they are, just not how I understood initially.