Comment by Sohcahtoa82
4 years ago
They can go large enough for anything that matters.
A quick Google says there's an estimate of 10^78 to 10^82 atoms in the universe. That number would be able to be stored in well under 300 bits.
4 years ago
They can go large enough for anything that matters.
A quick Google says there's an estimate of 10^78 to 10^82 atoms in the universe. That number would be able to be stored in well under 300 bits.
Universe is tiny compared to mathematics and software, even simply RSA keys are already 2048bit.
Lots of problems suffer from 'combinatorial explosion' [1].
I recently learned about the Archimedes's cattle problem, the solution is of order 10^206544 [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_explosion
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes%27s_cattle_problem
10^206544 would still be less than 8 kB. You could store it on an Atari cartridge!