On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 11:40:51AM -0500, Nathaniel W Filardo wrote:
> entire sun-facing solid angle of the earth into a similarly perfect
> computer, we get 2^192/2^32*(4.5 x 10^(-10)) ~~ 2^129 addition operations in

Rats, I got overly happy with exponentiation (should be 2^5, not 2^32).
Correcting the error gives 2^156 operations in a year, which is more than
sufficient to expect to find a root block.

Management would like to apologize for the oversight.
--nwf;