I'm a dingbat, I "replied" instead of "reply-to-all-ed" Peter
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter St. John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Apr 11, 2007 11:51 AM Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Win64 Clusters!!!!!!!!!!!! To: Jon Forrest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jon, On 4/10/07, Jon Forrest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But I stand firm on my claim that no human, or group of humans, can write a program that requires more than 32-bits of text space.
I like to say that proving a theorem is alot like writing a program. I don't know about the biggest software projects, but the Classification of Finite Simple Groups was huge; from Wiki: "In all, the work comprises tens of thousands of pages in 500 journal articles by some 100 authors." My thumbnail guesstimate of how much bytes are in a typical journal page of mathematics (maybe less than AMSTeX source, but more than 2k of plaintext prose, because all the symbols have to be expressed as abbreivations...) suggests that this work, done by humans, amounts to more than 4 GB. I'm not clear, myself, about the "infinite flat address space", as I want my data space to be a bit more structured (in my view of the C source, say) and don't want to care about how it looks to the compiler (as long as the compiler is happy). However, the killer app to me is what RGB mentioned; I know and love numbers that don't fit in one 32-bit word. Peter Cordially,
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