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Jim submitted this idea :

Doesn't everybody create 4+Gb word processor documents? I mean, that's only 858,993,459 words, buttuming an average of 5 letters each. Or, well, the first and last names of everyone in the US, more or less.

'Course, 64 bits lets us really have some fun; it gives a theoretical max of 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes, or about 3Gb for every person on the planet. So you could have every detail of every financial transaction, school record, military and medical records, names, addresses, lists of relatives and a high-res image or two, for every single person on the planet, all in one easy to manage document.

Of course, that buttumes no paging is involved. Even 32-bit systems can handily deal with more than 4Gb, via paging mechanisms. So if you figure that a 64-bit system also had a 32-bit paging mechanism, you could increase this by a factor of four billion, meaning about 12 *billion* gigabytes per person. So you could include all that information up there, plus their entire genetic code, and very likely their entire molecular makeup to boot, all with room left over... and still all in one single document.

Or, as I like to think of it, give me the memory, I'm going to quicksort the internet. :)

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