[107828] in Cypherpunks
CDR: Factoring effort - a measure of scale
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Sun Jan 24 22:16:16 1999
From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 21:03:07 -0600 (CST)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Straight out of 2nd ed Applied Crypto,
Odds of death in auto accident per lifetime 1/88 (2^7)
Volume of universe 10^84cm
2^280 cm
Atoms in planet 10^51
2^170
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