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4 Sep 2024 01:20:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Be afraid  
From: Le Forgeron
Date: 23 Aug 2010 03:18:43
Message: <4c7220d3$1@news.povray.org>
Le 22/08/2010 22:01, andrel a écrit :
> On 22-8-2010 20:38, John VanSickle wrote:

>> How many digits of pi do you need before your calculation of the
>> volume of the universe is off by no more than the average volume of a
>> water molecule?
>>
>> Regards,
>> John
> 
> one mol of water is 18 gram is 18 ml hence volume of one molecule of
> water is (18×10^-3 /(6.02214179×10^23))=
> universe 3×10^80

How did you measure that ?
What's the speed of the expansion everyone is claiming to happen ?


> therefore ratio of these volumes:
> 3×10^80/(18×10^-3 /(6.02214179×10^23))= 10^106

So, we would be fine with integer of 353 bits, at least for volume
expressed in water molecule... what about an hydrogen atom instead ?

Could computer technology get past the wall of 384 bits for integer one
day ? (and what would they compute ?)

-- 
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the way the job is described in the formal spec.  Working<br/>
late would feel like using an undocumented external procedure.


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