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Originally posted by Unregistered
There's not even that amount of atoms in the whole Universe! Which I think is about 10<SUP>90</SUP>, more or less. |
However, if you do the math, a 1GB file has 8589934592 bits. the number Nosferatu came up with is a total of all permutations of that 1GB file where 1 OR MORE of those bits has changed. When you change even 1 bit, the resulting file is a completely new file because its hash value will be different. I believe the number Nosferatu came up with may be pretty close.
As for the number of atoms in the universe.... I don't think that number is even close. Whatever scientist came up with that number is on drugs.