From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: The next exercise Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 01:20:51 +0100 Message-ID: <87r0wynan0.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87tu24tmv6.fsf@web.de> <574c1ceba8d5f62d3c07@heytings.org> <87edt8tklz.fsf@web.de> <574c1ceba8ee790f5f45@heytings.org> <87r0x8s3le.fsf@web.de> <87a63wuv1t.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87lendo15a.fsf@web.de> <87k02tute0.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87mt7omf31.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36938"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:9mhWfXJAV0LY6iOyc6VgjFM2/Ts= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 17 10:55:31 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p6Tul-0009T8-5O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 10:55:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p6Tuh-0003Jx-AG; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 04:55:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p6Kwo-0004qR-UJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2022 19:21:02 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p6Kwn-0001dn-4T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2022 19:21:02 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p6Kwk-00078I-7N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 01:20:58 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 04:55:23 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:141826 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen wrote: > Still too mathematical maybe. Wait - it's the largest number > a calculator using 8 796 093 022 208 binary digits > can express. That's right! \o/ It is the number you get from one terabyte of data - or technically 1 TiB - with all the bits set, i.e. 1111111111111 ... [just kidding] Here is the entire list, you deserve it: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BINARY UNITS incal@dataswamp.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- name bytes unit max value ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- char/byte 1 (1- (** 2 (* 8 (** 2 0) ))) word 2 (1- (** 2 (* 8 (** 2 1) ))) doubleword 4 (1- (** 2 (* 8 (** 2 2) ))) quadword 8 (1- (** 2 (* 8 (** 2 3) ))) paragraph 16 (1- (** 2 (* 8 (** 2 4) ))) kilobyte 1 024 KiB (1- (** 2 (* 8 (** (** 2 10) 1)))) megabyte 1 048 576 MiB (1- (** 2 (* 8 (** (** 2 10) 2)))) gigabyte 1 073 741 824 GiB (1- (** 2 (* 8 (** (** 2 10) 3)))) terabyte 1 099 511 627 776 TiB (1- (** 2 (* 8 (** (** 2 10) 4)))) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ^^^^ 1024 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://dataswamp.org/~incal/data/BINARY-UNITS 2022-12-01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal