Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!pyramid!voder!cullsj!gupta From: gupta@cullsj.UUCP Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: NSA advertisment Message-ID: <166@cullsj.UUCP> Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 16:33:09 EST Article-I.D.: cullsj.166 Posted: Mon Dec 7 16:33:09 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Dec-87 18:32:27 EST References: <4781@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <6200@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: Cullinet Software, San Jose, CA Lines: 8 Keywords: Counting at 1E90 hz Summary: 1E90 != 1**90 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 :-)?