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They can go large enough for anything that matters. A quick Google says there's an estimate of 10^78 to 10^82 atoms in the universe. That number would be able
by Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
They can go large enough for anything that matters.
A quick Google says there's an estimate of 10^78 to 10^82 atoms in the universe. That number would be able to be stored in well under 300 bits.
- ithinkso 5y agoUniverse is tiny compared to mathematics and software, even simply RSA keys are already 2048bit. Lots of problems suffer from 'combinatorial explosion' [1]. I recently learned about the Archimedes's cattle problem, the solution is of order 10^206544 [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_explosion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_explosion [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes%27s_cattle_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes%27s_cattle_problem
- Sohcahtoa82 5y ago10^206544 would still be less than 8 kB. You could store it on an Atari cartridge!