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Ask HN: How many man-made objects are there?
Is it possible for humanity to produce 2^256 distinct pieces of anything material? Microplastic is OK to be counted.
- mtmail 1y agoThat's 10^77. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_number estimates 10^80 protons in the universe. I think humanity would run out of source material.