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SI prefixes are not up to 1e30, or 100 bits

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Subject: SI prefixes are not up to 1e30, or 100 bits
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by: Thomas Koenig - Sat, 26 Nov 2022 10:13 UTC

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by: Thomas Koenig - Sat, 26 Nov 2022 11:19 UTC

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by: Quadibloc - Tue, 29 Nov 2022 07:23 UTC

On Saturday, November 26, 2022 at 3:13:56 AM UTC-7, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> For those designing large systems: SI prefixes are now up to 10**30
> (roughly 100 bits). I think it will be a while before the first
> storage devices with quettabytes are introduced, though...

Thanks for reminding me! I saw the news story, but I forgot to update
my page at

http://www.quadibloc.com/math/bignum.htm

which omission I have now rectified.

John Savard

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by: Quadibloc - Tue, 29 Nov 2022 07:35 UTC

On Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 12:23:39 AM UTC-7, Quadibloc wrote:
> On Saturday, November 26, 2022 at 3:13:56 AM UTC-7, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> > For those designing large systems: SI prefixes are now up to 10**30
> > (roughly 100 bits). I think it will be a while before the first
> > storage devices with quettabytes are introduced, though...
> Thanks for reminding me! I saw the news story, but I forgot to update
> my page at
>
> http://www.quadibloc.com/math/bignum.htm
>
> which omission I have now rectified.

After doing so, I found another thing to fix: there was a broken link, to Earthlink,
for the MROB pages on large numbers, which I have now corrected to their current
location.

John Savard

Wherever you go...There you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai

devel / comp.arch / SI prefixes are not up to 1e30, or 100 bits

Subject	Author
SI prefixes are not up to 1e30, or 100 bits	Thomas Koenig
Re: SI prefixes are now up to 1e30, or 100 bits	Thomas Koenig
Re: SI prefixes are not up to 1e30, or 100 bits	Quadibloc
Re: SI prefixes are not up to 1e30, or 100 bits	Quadibloc