Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 21:06:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: advocacy@freebsd.org, rivers@dignus.com Cc: jesus.monroy@usa.net Subject: Re: [Re: BUDS Coming to you soon.] Message-ID: <199905140106.VAA45328@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <373B7585.21FC7A73@softweyr.com>
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> >
> > 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 :-) )
>
> No. Someone once commented that the 2^128 possible IPv6 address space
> is enough to give every atom in the universe an IP address, so you'd
> have to be able to print your number on subatomic particles to even
> be able to print 2^313, let alone do something with it.
>
> > Perhaps you should simply try and determine, say, the top
> > 20 hardware configuarations and test the kernel configuarations
> > that match those. You might be able to expand that number to,
> > say, the top 100, etc...
>
> Some study of the relevant books and articles on software testing
> methodology would be a good starting point.
>
I have another suggestion.
If we neglect interstellar travel time:
there are <1000 billion stars in the milky way, assume each
has one inhabited planet with an average of 8M people,
each with 4 computers, so that means that
(2**43 planets)(2**33 people/planet)(2*2 computers per person)
means each person still has to do 2**235 compiles per "night"
maybe we could ship them a new CD every night?
:-) :-) :-)
(I'm sorry, but me and a couple of friends have gone off the
deep end tonight... :-) )
- Dave Rivers -
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