Date: 14 May 1999 14:05:09 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, jesus.monroy@usa.net, licia@o-o.org Subject: Re: [Re: BUDS Coming to you soon.] Message-ID: <xzpyair3lhm.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Thomas David Rivers's message of "Thu, 13 May 1999 20:49:35 -0400 (EDT)" References: <199905140049.UAA45243@lakes.dignus.com>
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Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> writes: > So, 2**64 is 18446744073709551615 (according to "%qu") - 20 digits, > seems like 2**313 is going to be a lot longer... let's say we gain > a 10's place digit for every 4 powers of two (which is, of course, > way conservative, as you actually gain more than one 10s digit.) > 313-64 is 249; 249/4 is 62... Yeah. 2^313 is a 1 followed by 313 zeroes (in binary). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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