Woops. My original comment ran the numbers against the OP's "wouldn't that be 256^256?", but I got tripped up by the reply refuting that and saying it was 8^25

Woops. My original comment ran the numbers against the OP's "wouldn't that be 256^256?", but I got tripped up by the reply refuting that and saying it was 8^256 instead. For as-yet unknown reasons my brain has always had a hard time mapping between the real world and the mathematical vacuum, so it was honestly less stressful to risk trusting that comment than try and [figure out how to] figure it out on my own. So I just substituted calculations for 8^n. Here are the original numbers I supplied: 8^8: 167,77,216 16^16: 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 32^32: 1,461,501,637,330,902,918,203,684,832,716,283,019,655,932,542,976 Thanks. Hopefully I can figure out those mapping problems one day. I think neurological damage may be involved, or something - I had to resort to button-mashing on my calculator while trying to figure out how many vegetables I could buy for $X given that they were $Y/kg one day at the supermarket. I'm 29. </rant>