[NicknamedBob]

"Well, that was a very binary post number."

In other words, (so to speak);

2
4
8
16
32
64
128
256
512
1024

These are powers of two, and 1024 is the tenth power of two.

2^10=1024

[ArGee]

You got it, Bob.

As they say, there are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary numbers, and those who don’t.

[ArGee]

You got it, Bob.

As they say, there are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary numbers, and those who don’t.

[NicknamedBob]

Remember, back at the beginning of this, when two to the sixteenth was considered both unachievable and inadequate?

2
4
8
16
32
64
128
256
512
1024
2048
4096
8192
16384
32768
65536

65536 = 2^16

.

This may begin to indicate the problem with doubling the number of grains of rice sequentially on the sixty-four squares of a chessboard.

2^64 is a VERY big number.