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From: palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu (David Palmer)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: NSA advertisment
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Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 20:18:14 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  5 20:18:14 1987
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I just read a magazine add seeking people to work at the NSA (pg. 80R of
Dec. 1987 IEEE Spectrum)

The graphic is 10,000,0... (100 zeros) written on three lines.  The first
paragraph of the text reads:
	You're looking at a "googol." Ten raised to the 100th power.
	One followed by 100 zeros.  Counting 24 hours a day, you would
	need 120 years to reach a googol.  Two lifetimes.  It's a
	number that's impossible to grasp.  A number beyond our imagination.

I just thought that people in this newsgroup would like to know
that the NSA has machines which can count at 1e90 Hz.  It sort
of makes RSA look trivial to crack by exhaustion.

Or perhaps there's something wrong with their ability to grasp numbers
beyond their imagination.

		David Palmer
		palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu
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	The opinions expressed are those of an 8000 year old Atlantuan
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