On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:45:38 -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > Disklabel won't give you a lot of help here, you will >probably have to do some math, and it may involve more digits than your >desktop calculator supports (find a fourth grader). > >Nick. >(old enough to remember when eight digits was enough for "anything", >though if so, why do 90 year old Comptometers sporting ten digit >addends and 11 digit results, and 80 year old Monroe calculators >that could multiply eight digits by eight digits and NOT overflow?) > Wolfram Alpha (http://www.wolframalpha.com/) does 29 digit math for me. I didn't try to push the boundaries beyond what I use.
Wait a min.... Input: 2^128 ... Result: 340 282 366 920 938 463 463 374 607 431 768 211 456 Digits: 39! ;-) *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I <am> subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. Rod/ --- This life is not the real thing. It is not even in Beta. If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it.
