"Steven M. Bellovin" wrote:
And of course, security folks want the buildings to be O(2^1024) floors
high, so that we can see some *useful* primes...
Let's see, at about 3 meters per floor...2^1024 is about 10^(0.3*1024), or about
10^306 floors, so the building would be about 3*10^303 kilometers high. c is
3*10^5 km/s, so that building would be 10^298 light-seconds high--about 3*10^290
light-years. I don't think the universe is big enough. :-)
On the other hand, the signalling system for an elevator shaft 10^290
light-years
high *would* be a very interesting networking problem. :-)
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