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Date: Wed,  4 Feb 2009 12:10:13 -0500
From: Nathaniel W Filardo <nwf@cs.jhu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Some arithmetic [was: Re:  Sources Gone?]
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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;

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