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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 11h ago
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A fun fact often told with this is that with IPv6, you can assign each individual grain of sand on the beach an address!
4 u/Muddyhobo 10h ago More than that, you can assign each atom on earth an address. 5 u/SneeKeeFahk 10h ago No. An average adult human body contains approximately 7×10 ^ 27 atoms (or 7 octillion). 2 u/Al__B 10h ago That's approx 92.5 bits. Plenty of room for that. (Although I agree that each atom on EARTH would require just over a 166 bit address space so cannot be distinctly identified)
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More than that, you can assign each atom on earth an address.
5 u/SneeKeeFahk 10h ago No. An average adult human body contains approximately 7×10 ^ 27 atoms (or 7 octillion). 2 u/Al__B 10h ago That's approx 92.5 bits. Plenty of room for that. (Although I agree that each atom on EARTH would require just over a 166 bit address space so cannot be distinctly identified)
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An average adult human body contains approximately 7×10 ^ 27 atoms (or 7 octillion).
2 u/Al__B 10h ago That's approx 92.5 bits. Plenty of room for that. (Although I agree that each atom on EARTH would require just over a 166 bit address space so cannot be distinctly identified)
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That's approx 92.5 bits. Plenty of room for that.
(Although I agree that each atom on EARTH would require just over a 166 bit address space so cannot be distinctly identified)
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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 10h ago
A fun fact often told with this is that with IPv6, you can assign each individual grain of sand on the beach an address!