Group: comp.os.plan9 · Group Profile · Search for 1e24 in comp.os.plan9
Author: erik quanstrom
Date: Mar 8, 2008 08:00
... much. in the real world there are limits (ha!) to how small or large something can get before it is practically infinite or zero. this is because, .e.g., there is no such thing as 1e24 bytes of storage. theoretically, i don't think a collision by itself would be all that interesting. the number of possible bit patterns in, say, 8k blocks would be 2^(8*8192). while the number of ...
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