Okay my computer right here has 10^13 bits of storage and without too much trouble I could get it to use all that memory as a counter and just count to the highest value possible, which would be 2^(10^13) or in other words much much longer than the age of the universe even at a fast clock speed.
Now technically yes, after it got to that 2^(10^13) value it would have to either halt or start over from 0 or something… but that seems not so practically relevant to me because it’s such a huge integer value.
Yes excellent point. Although bit flips would get you there a bit faster. And rust I suppose. Oh also SSDs can only take 1-100k rewrites on each block. RAM and CPU are more durable. I bet it would run for at least a century. If your computer isn’t a laptop with batteries.
Okay my computer right here has 10^13 bits of storage and without too much trouble I could get it to use all that memory as a counter and just count to the highest value possible, which would be 2^(10^13) or in other words much much longer than the age of the universe even at a fast clock speed.
Now technically yes, after it got to that 2^(10^13) value it would have to either halt or start over from 0 or something… but that seems not so practically relevant to me because it’s such a huge integer value.
Yes excellent point. Although bit flips would get you there a bit faster. And rust I suppose. Oh also SSDs can only take 1-100k rewrites on each block. RAM and CPU are more durable. I bet it would run for at least a century. If your computer isn’t a laptop with batteries.