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Comment by tredre3

15 hours ago

That is a fun exercise! However the reality is that public IPv6 is always given out in 48 or 64 bits prefixes (minimum).

The math is a lot less impressive when you do it with 2^48 or 2^64.

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unethical_ban  6 hours ago

Yep. IPv6 should be thought of as 2^64 subnets, each with "enough space for everyone" within each subnet.

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