July 2012
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Random trivia about Computing
We know some computers use 64-bit words.
2^64 is approximately 1.8 x 10^18 - that’s a pretty large number.
So in fact if we started incrementing a 64-bit counter once per second at the beginning of the universe (20 billion yrs ago), the MSB’s of the counter would still be all zeroes.
~ Excerpts from a book on Digital Signal Processing
