Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!labrea!jade!ucbvax!hplabs!hpcea!hpfcdc!stroyan 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. Lines: 11 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