Re: [9fans] thoughs about venti+fossil

[Wes Kussmaul <wes@authentrus.com>]

erik quanstrom wrote:

> brushing off the factor of 2^60 is like brushing off the difference
> in weight between a bunch of banannas and the moon.

bunch of bananas = ~1kg
mass of moon (weight of moon @ earth's sea level) = 7.3477^22 kg
2^60      =    1,152,921,504,606,846,976 = 1.15etc^18

Oh oh, you're off by 4 orders of magnitude, I think I hear collisions...

-- 
Wes Kussmaul


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