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Examining the Finity of 64-bit Computing

I think I just totally made up this word, “finity”.  Google has never heard of it, at least.  But it is a word that I thought should be in the English language to describe the properties of a number that is NOT infinite.  I’m not so sure the word “affinity” appropriately describes what I’m talking about… regardless… lecture my on vocabulary later.  In this blog, I will attempt to put into perspective the extent to which 64-bit memory addressing in computers is NOT infinite, but finite.   Continue reading “Examining the Finity of 64-bit Computing”