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From: stroyan@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Mike Stroyan)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: NSA's googol ad
Message-ID: <4840001@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Dec 87 04:47:10 GMT
References: <458@gtx.com>
Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
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This claim, "Counting 24 hours a day, you would need 120 years to reach a 
googol.", raises some interesting questions.  Did they put this gross error 
in as a test for prospective employees? Do they have the technology to
count at  rate of 10^90 Hz? Can they use it to break DES?  Is my name being
put on a list somewhere? Enquiring minds want to know.

Maybe they got the numbers from their budgeting department.
Start the project now, and talk about the cost overrun 120
years from now.

Mike Stroyan, [hplabs!]hpfcla!stroyan