[104853] in Cypherpunks
Re: Dinosaur killer probability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Schneier)
Thu Oct 29 18:23:45 1998
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:22:50 -0600
To: coderpunks@toad.com
From: Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.981029141102.17270I-100000@guru.qualcomm.com
>
Reply-To: Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com>
At 02:15 PM 10/29/98 -0800, Greg Noel wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Bruce Schneier wrote:
>
>> Isn't n around 100,000?
>
>Only three orders of magnitude off (it should be 100,000,000 years) but
>that's not too bad for a cryptographer. {;-}
Just a difference of 2^{10}. Not at all a problem.
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