Comment by globular-toast

7 hours ago

Unfortunately I think one of the problems with v6 is people are just unable to apply intuition to numbers this big. The minimum number of /64s an ISP will have is around 4 billion. They generally give subscribers a /56 which is 256 /64s. It's all simple power-of-2 arithmetic. Computer people used to get how big 2^64 is.

I agree. Writing out the whole number was intentional.

How many digits is that? Woah, I can barely count the commas!