[sf-lug] file limit in vi?

RBV GoodWriter2548 at earthlink.net
Thu Sep 27 13:46:43 PDT 2007


>
> 2^64 = 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes
> 
> I'm told this is larger than the number of electrons in the Universe(
> although it seems too small for that to me).
> 
Well, insofar as a given byte requires well more than one electron to store,
and storage of many-many-terabytes ("MMT") of data is done on multiple
systems around the planet, I'm inclined to go with the "too small" choice...(?)




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