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Replies: 19 — Last Post July 1 5:37pm by shadowpool
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How do you calculate the number of digits in the product of something like

4^187500000

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still having a hard time with that computer, eh?

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Quote: from fpoon at 6:47 pm on June 26, 2008
still having a hard time with that computer, eh?

No.  I'm just wondering if I have to reserve gigs or megabytes for the result.  o.0

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Quote: from shadowpool at 10:49 pm on June 26, 2008
Quote: from fpoon at 6:47 pm on June 26, 2008
still having a hard time with that computer, eh?

No. I'm just wondering if I have to reserve gigs or megabytes for the result. o.0


I'm thinking more like yottabytes. =]

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infinity

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I know there's a way to do this.

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There probably is.  I haven't learned it, though.  :(  If you find out, let me know, I'd be interested.

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I have no idea, but why are you trying to figure this out?

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should be to the magnitude of 10^112500000 i believe

basically, a 1 with 112,500,000 zeros after it lol

Post edited at 3:10 pm on June 26, 2008 by Event Horizon

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around 11,280,000 digits

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probably closer to 11,290,000 in fact

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what formula did you use, I think you are missing a zero

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Log(4)*187500000=112,886,248.374


So I'm looking at 107.7MB of digits.  Not too bad!

Except I want to raise that result to the 16th power.  For a total of 4^3000000000 which represents the total number of possible combinations of DNA in the human genome.  

And that's 1.6GB of digits.  I'm not sure I have enough to ram to calculate that one out.  I'd have to write a specialized program to write the intermediate results to the disk.  :(


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yah I am missing a zero, I didn't count the zeros in the question he asked properly

112,880,000- to 112,890,000

no forula, just guesswork.

what formula did you use?

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i knew he was missing a zero.

you want to calculate the possible combinations of the human genome on your home computer?

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