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From: stevec@sfu_taurus.cs.sfu
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: NSA advertisment
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Date: 8 Dec 87 20:34:00 GMT
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>In article <6200@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, newton2@violet.berkeley.edu writes:
>> Gee, even *I* can count at 1E90 hz, and "exhaustion" is the proper
>> term for the result of trying to count even to 10E6 at that rate.
>> 
>> doug maisel

>No you can't 1E90 = 1.0 * (10 ** 90) and not 1 ** 90.  Or have you
>forgotten the scientific notation :-)?

Well, now that we have agreed about the number in question,
lets ask, what pyhysical phenomena occur at that frequency?
 
Lets see. 
 
The speed of light is about 3E8m/s. So, in one 
clock pulse at the given frequence, light can travel 
3E-82m.
 
Whats the radius of, say, a proton? If memory serves it is within
20 orders of magnitude of 1E-20m.
 
Nuff said.
 
Steve
 
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