On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Donald E Haselwood wrote:
>> Well, a small lottery. ISTR the Florida Lotto (pick 6 balls out of 40) is
>> 13 billion or so combinations.
>>
> Tho a bit OT, isn't the FL Lotto 54 (or 55) balls?
Dunno, I've never "played". AFAIC it's a voluntary tax, and I choose not to
pay.
> 40 balls gives 2.76E9 and if the pool is 55, 20.8E9. I get 2^128 =
> 3.4E38...indeed a modest number ;)
eben@pc:~$ dc -e '2 128^p'
340282366920938463463374607431768211456
Oh yeah, I must have been computing 2^32. 2^128 is, as you say, bigger than
a lottery.
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