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Comment by concerndc1tizen

1 year ago

And then do that in parallel for 10 billion people. And for each of their devices, and servers or other supporting infrastructure. And do it multiple times per second (e.g. for every log message, every datapoint, ...)

That's why we need 128 bit numbers.

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