in reply to Re^6: Very Large Hex Combinations
in thread Very Large Hex Combinations

Arg! You're right! That's how I did it originally, but I thought I had it wrong.

There are 2^(24*640*480) true colour 640x480 images. That's a number with over 2211840 digits. Considering a googol has only 101 digits and "a googol is much larger than the number of atoms in the Universe", your goal is unfeasable.

Even if we used 128x128x16 thumbnails, it's still unfeasable at 2^(4*128*128), a number with over 19660 digits.

There is over a googol of 20x20 monochrome images. (Over 2.58 * 10^120, to be more precise.)

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Re^8: Very Large Hex Combinations
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 04, 2005 at 16:41 UTC
    As I said in another post, even 8x8 bitmaps are unfeasable. 2^64 is a very large number. A 6x6 bitmap needs four and a half byte of storage, storing all of them requires 288 Tb. That's feasable.
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