[OT] Understatement

[Dan Jenkins]

 From a BBC article on IPv6 vs. IPv6 (Vint Cerf is pushing for the 
transition as he anticipates address exhaustion in 2010/2011):
> IPv6 will create 340 trillion trillion trillion separate addresses, 
> enough to satisfy demand for decades to come.
Umm, 340 undecillion (3.4 × 10^38 ) allows for 700 billion addressable 
IPs per square micron of the Earth's surface or, as I believe Vint Cerf 
is thinking, 1 IP address per every 9 cubic feet of the entire solar 
system (out to Pluto's orbit). That definitely would qualify as enough 
for "decades to come."

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Dan Jenkins (dan at rastech.com)