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posted by dennisn on October 13th, 2010 at 1:17PM
I don't think it matters. ASCII (or xml for that matter) encoding will only change things by a factor of maybe 10ish, compared to encoding it minimally as bits (each bit representing one decimal position). So, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt -- maybe you only need 2 trillion GB of disk space.
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posted by dennisn on October 13th, 2010 at 1:39PM
For the sake of simplicity, say we're typing in a text editor.
(The number of letters in a book is /nothing/ compared to a googolplex :P.)
(Oh, by the way, if you use every subatomic particle in the entire universe, as a decimal position, you, ummm, still wouldn't be able to "write" it out.)
(A googolplex, btw, is /nothing/ compared to Graham's Number.)
** I think my original post was wrong. 1GB = 10^9 Bytes, 1 Trillion = 10^12 (1TB = 1000GB), 1 googolplex = 10^10^100, so you would need 10^(10^100 - 9) GB of disk space, which is a hell of a lot more than the originally stated 2*10^(12) GB. I did say "at least" though :P.
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