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!
;-)

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