Re: Whatīs the algorithm that compresses a 20 digit big int, into 8 bytes ?
From: Rafael Anschau <rafael.anschau_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:08:35 -0700 (PDT)
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Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:08:35 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <22194089-909c-43d9-9cc1-792cd351913b_at_o24g2000vbo.googlegroups.com>
On Apr 9, 2:18 pm, Bob Badour <bbad..._at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> The proof is trivial. 20 decimal digits have 10^20 distinct values. 64
> binary digits have 2^64 distinct values.
>
> 10^20 > 2^64 > 10^19
Rafael Received on Fri Apr 09 2010 - 20:08:35 CEST