a computer so powerfulit plugs directly in to the sun
and has god as a teccie?
(and has god as a teccie?
Dont point it at your face up the ass,
Fri 14 Nov 2008, 21:13,
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Or a Mind."The Mind had an image to illustrate its information capacity. It liked to imagine the contents of its memory store written out on cards; little slips of paper with tiny writing on them, big enough for a human to read. If the characters were a couple of millimetres tall and the paper about ten centimetres square and written on both sides, then ten thousand characters could be squeezed onto each card. In a metre-long drawer of such cards maybe one thousand of them -- ten million pieces of information -- could be stored. In a small room a few metres square, with a corridor in the middle just wide enough to pull a tray out into, you could keep perhaps a thousand trays arranged in close-packed cabinets: ten billion characters in all.
A square kilometre of these cramped cells might contain as many as one hundred thousand rooms; a thousand such floors would produce a building two thousand metres tall with a hundred million rooms.
If you kept building those squat towers, squeezed hard up against each other until they covered the surface of a largish standard-G world -- maybe a billion square kilometres -- you would have a planet with one trillion square kilometres of floor space, one hundred quadrillion paper-stuffed rooms, thirty light-years of corridors and a number of potential stored characters sufficiently large to boggle just about anybody's mind.
In base 10 that number would be a 1 followed by twenty-seven zeroes, and even that vast figure was only a fraction of the capacity of the Mind. To match it you would need a thousand such worlds; systems of them, a clusterful of information-packed globes . . . and that vast capacity was physically contained within a space smaller than a single one of those tiny rooms, inside the Mind. "
(A square kilometre of these cramped cells might contain as many as one hundred thousand rooms; a thousand such floors would produce a building two thousand metres tall with a hundred million rooms.
If you kept building those squat towers, squeezed hard up against each other until they covered the surface of a largish standard-G world -- maybe a billion square kilometres -- you would have a planet with one trillion square kilometres of floor space, one hundred quadrillion paper-stuffed rooms, thirty light-years of corridors and a number of potential stored characters sufficiently large to boggle just about anybody's mind.
In base 10 that number would be a 1 followed by twenty-seven zeroes, and even that vast figure was only a fraction of the capacity of the Mind. To match it you would need a thousand such worlds; systems of them, a clusterful of information-packed globes . . . and that vast capacity was physically contained within a space smaller than a single one of those tiny rooms, inside the Mind. "
The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated,
Fri 14 Nov 2008, 21:16,
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lolnumbers10^27 * 10^3 = 10^30.
Stars/Sand grains
(Stars/Sand grains
The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated,
Fri 14 Nov 2008, 21:39,
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