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This should be enough for a while
Geeky bit of info about ip addresses
2 ^ 128 = 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,2 11,456
My favorite quotation from the talk Steve Deering of Xerox PARC gave on IPv6 at MIT today (paraphrased):
"Many people thought that 64 bits for IPng addresses would not be enough. Some people seemed to think 64 bits could only hold numbers twice as large as today's 32 bits could, but mostly people were concerned there be enough address space for tomorrow's Internet toasters, wrist watches and cars. So we eventually settled on 128 bits, at which point no one had strong objections. It was then calculated that 2^128 was 1400 for every square angstrom on the surface of the Earth."
1 angstrom = 1.0 × 10^-10 meters = 0.0000000001
My favorite quotation from the talk Steve Deering of Xerox PARC gave on IPv6 at MIT today (paraphrased):
"Many people thought that 64 bits for IPng addresses would not be enough. Some people seemed to think 64 bits could only hold numbers twice as large as today's 32 bits could, but mostly people were concerned there be enough address space for tomorrow's Internet toasters, wrist watches and cars. So we eventually settled on 128 bits, at which point no one had strong objections. It was then calculated that 2^128 was 1400 for every square angstrom on the surface of the Earth."
1 angstrom = 1.0 × 10^-10 meters = 0.0000000001
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