Monday, September 16, 2013

2^219 states

2219 states

But that's just one star, and a measly one at that. A typical supernova releases something like 1051 ergs. (About a hundred times as much energy would be released in the form of neutrinos, but let them go for now.) If all of this energy could be channeled into a single orgy of computation, a 219-bit counter could be cycled through all of its states.
    https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/09/the_doghouse_cr.html


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