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Old 11-22-2007, 09:01 PM
bigpooch bigpooch is offline
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Default Simple storage problem (math)

Suppose you have a "business card" CD and let's assume it
can hold 55 MB which we'll take as 440 million bits. Let's
also not worry about "CD rot" (or maybe we have decided to
make three copies and use a "majority rule" in case of any
loss of integrity).

Show that you can "essentially" store all the prime numbers
less than 2.29 x 10^9 on the CD.
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