To: Tahts-a-dats-ago
This guy says that his analogy of the 100 switches has 2100 possible combinations. I get something just short of 1.27E30. Am I wrong or is he?
4 posted on
09/29/2007 6:30:35 PM PDT by
wolfpat
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To: wolfpat
The 100 is supposed to be in superscript, as in 2 to the 100.
5 posted on
09/29/2007 6:40:37 PM PDT by
TheDon
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To: wolfpat
"This guy says that his analogy of the 100 switches has 2100 possible combinations. I get something just short of 1.27E30. Am I wrong or is he?" His claim is that there are 2 (times itself, 100 times) possible combinations.
To: wolfpat
Probably a typesetting or AutoCorrect problem.
He probably means 2^100, i.e. 2 raised to the 100th power, that is 2*2*2....[100 times] or, as you mentioned, 1.26765E+30
8 posted on
09/29/2007 6:52:07 PM PDT by
BwanaNdege
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