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To: SC_Republican

but 2 ^ 64 = 18,446,744,073,709,551,616


9 posted on 04/01/2005 4:29:47 PM PST by SC_Republican
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To: SC_Republican

As a numerical identifier, index to a database with all that information, that's fine. But you couldn't even fit my birthplace (name of city only) in 64 bits unless you could encode all 26 letters, each in only 4 bits.


16 posted on 04/01/2005 9:27:41 PM PST by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || Iran Azadi || Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket?)
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