<p>Well, if each element is a boolean value, then we'll only need 1/8th of the storage.</p>
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<p><blockquote type="cite">On Nov 23, 2009 3:27 PM, "Ed Cashin" <<a href="mailto:ecashin@noserose.net">ecashin@noserose.net</a>> wrote:<br><br><p><font color="#500050">On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Rev. Johnny Healey <<a href="mailto:rev.null@gmail.com">rev.null@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
> Is this a sparse ...</font></p>For 22,267^8 elements, that's a great question.<br>
<br>
60435716178376869169877709157801441 elements, even if each is<br>
represented by a single byte, requires 53677698888756059476 PiB<br>
(pebibytes, old-school petabytes) of storage.<br>
<br>
Google says the world population is 6692030277 now. If everybody on<br>
Earth had 8021138080 PiB of data storage, together we could store<br>
that matrix. ;)<br>
<br>
Seriously, though. I doubt my own math. This takes hugeness to<br>
another level. Twenty two thousand plus raised to the eighth power<br>
seems intractably large.<br>
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