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Re: range of atoms

• Posted by jluethje at gmx.de Jun 04, 2002
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Hello Rob,

you wrote:

> Juergen writes:
>> On my system, atoms apparently can range from approximately -1.7e308
>> to +1.7e308. That isn't a small difference (factor 170,000,000):

> The limit will be the same on any system running Euphoria that
> has IEEE floating-point hardware (all that I know of).
> I was not being very precise when I said 1e300, but when you consider
> that there are at most 1e81 atoms (no pun intended) in the universe, 
> it's hard to imagine what use someone could possibly have for
> numbers like 1e300 or higher.   

An average chess game has about 40 moves (white moves 40 times, black
moves 40 times). How much different chess games of this length are
theoretically possible? (I hope, my English is understandable.)
The answer is: 1.5e128 [1]
Much more than the estimated number of atoms in the universe!
... but much less than 1e300, too.  

> Regards,
>    Rob Craig
>    Rapid Deployment Software
>    http://www.RapidEuphoria.com

Best regards,
   Juergen

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[1] I took this info from the book
Steinwender, Friedel:
"Schach am PC"
Haar near Munich/Germany, 1995
page 52