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A little silly for IPv6
- Subject: A little silly for IPv6
- From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu)
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:09:26 -0400
- In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:19:14 -0400." <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:19:14 -0400, "rwebb at ropeguru.com" said:
> Again comparing something like factual numbers of IPv6 addresses the
> the very fuzzy math of guessing how many atoms there are is very silly
> indeed.
A bit of thought will show that you can probably compute this based on our
estimage of the mass of the earth, which is known to be 5.97219 ? 10^24 kg,
and an estimate of what elements the mantle and core are made up of.
http://education.jlab.org/qa/mathatom_05.html
I don't think that 3 significant digits counts as "very fuzzy math"....
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