Hahaha maybe you should get better software. =P just kidding. anyway mathematic returns me no of years which has about 160000 digits roughly. Wow. what a small no ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Daniel Chia "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison E-mail: danielcjh@yahoo.com.sg MSN: danstryder01@yahoo.com.sg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert B." To: Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 19:34 Subject: Re: [OT] : Challenging...(another thought) > In attempting to carry out similar calculations and convert to years, Matlab > keeps returning "infinity" as the answer. So I guess that solves it! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "William Chops Westfield" > To: > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 6:28 AM > Subject: Re: [OT] : Challenging...(another thought) > > > > Let's be nicer and use a 256x256 display ("poor" TV quality) with > > 8 bits of color (256 values.) > > > > That's "only" 256^65536 possible combinations. > > > > There are about 10^79 electrons, atoms, and neutrons in the universe. > > > > BillW > > > > -- > > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads