Ancient transistor ?computer board
Chuck Guzis
cclist at sydex.com
Tue Jun 16 15:14:54 CDT 2020
On 6/16/20 12:29 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>
> Q: Is that link adequate to unambiguously identify any specific location
> within any sub-atomic particle in the universe? (such as far more
> detail than is required for the PHYSICAL LOCATION of the start of the
> file??)
Well, let's do some spitballing here.
There are estimated to be around 10^80 atoms in the known, observable
universe, which is about 34 8-bit bytes worth. So we could have a
unique number for each atom in the universe in only 34 bytes.
In that light, the URL *does* seem to be a bit excessive.
--Chuck
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