Wednesday, April 23, 2008

big

Think of the biggest number you can think of....





quadrillion?
that's 10^15...which is 1 followed by 15 zeros


now say 10^80...that's the estimated number of photons in the universe

and
(10^230, 10^1000)?
that's the estimated number of encrypting keys in the internet
i know that's quite a fuck up estimate interval but I'm sure we all have learn to live with fuck up things
now the keys are made up of prime numbers, which are the basic building blocks of math
primes which occur in a seemingly random manner on the number line

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