Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 02:22:50 +0200 From: Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, jesus.monroy@usa.net Subject: Re: [Re: BUDS Coming to you soon.] Message-ID: <19990514022250.A20115@foobar.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <199905140011.UAA44965@lakes.dignus.com>; from Thomas David Rivers on Thu, May 13, 1999 at 08:11:59PM -0400 References: <19990513235527.25447.qmail@www0g.netaddress.usa.net> <199905140011.UAA44965@lakes.dignus.com>
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On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 08:11:59PM -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > > > That makes for a *lot* (2 to the 313) of different kernels which will > > > > > take quite some time to compile... (longer than your lifetime?) > > > > > > > > Perhaps a more realistic testing paradigm should be employed? > > > > > > > I'm open to suggestions. But I think I will have > > normal lifetime. :-) > > Uh.. I don't think you quite grasp what I'm saying... While I > wish you a robust health and have no thoughts about your > life expectancy, I don't believe you could complete this task in > a normal lifetime. I don't believe you could complete this task > in the amount of time equivalent to the age of the universe... > it's a *lot* of time! > > 2 to the 313th power is a *very* *big* number... (hmm.... I wonder > how much paper would be required to print it out; do we have that > many trees in the world? If we consider all the trees ever grown > on the planet, is that enough? What if we made the font *really* > small :-) ) > It's a big number, yes, but it's not _that_ big: 2^313 ~ 2^(10*31) == (2^10)^31 ~ 1000^31 == (10^3)^31 == 10^93 A 1 with 93 zeroes (or at least something roughly in that range). Nevertheless it's far too high to ever have every possible kernel built - at least with today's technology :). bye, Harold -- <Shabby> Sleep is an abstinence syndrome wich occurs due to lack of caffein. Wed Mar 4 04:53:33 CET 1998 #unix, ircnet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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