1993-10-12 - Re: whoops!

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 3e40134406c27fc5f927e68d192007f85a347635b34c8993ee81eaf4530d0833
Message ID: <9310120228.AA19597@snark.lehman.com>
Reply To: <9310120045.AA18250@netcom6.netcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1993-10-12 02:31:05 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 11 Oct 93 19:31:05 PDT

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 93 19:31:05 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: whoops!
In-Reply-To: <9310120045.AA18250@netcom6.netcom.com>
Message-ID: <9310120228.AA19597@snark.lehman.com>
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J. Eric Townsend says:
> 
> I just sent mail saying I had 1/72 of 2^56 bytes of storage.  I was
> wrong, it seems I dropped 'a few' zeros.
> 
> In reality, there's 1/72057th or so next door.  That's a bit different
> than 1/72.

Ah, reality catches up.

You also forgot a factor of 8...

Perry

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