Date: Feb 16, 2013 12:25 PM
Author: Louis Talman
Subject: Re: Largest Known Prime Number Discovered

On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:47:15 -0700, Joe Niederberger  
<niederberger@comcast.net> wrote:

> Lou Talman says:
>> The size of the device isn't the limiting factor. It's estimated that  
>> there are roughly 10^82 particles in the universe, so finding enough  
>> hydrogen atoms will be a problem...
>
> You are of course correct. After I estimated the size I immediately  
> suspected what you say here, without even knowing an estimate for  
> #hydrogen particles. So much for
> the hydrogen economy :-(
>
> The optimistic response, though, is OK, how many universes do we need?  
> (I hear there's PLENTY to go around.)

Yeah, but are you gonna use the H atoms you find in them, or are you gonna  
use the universes themselves?

May make a difference in your size estimate...  :D

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- --Louis A. Talman
   Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
   Metropolitan State University of Denver

   <http://rowdy.msudenver.edu/~talmanl>