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MIT - Everything with an 18. Address?
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 17 2013 @ 06:00 AM EST
You read that right. For your further astonishment we reveal
3/8 GEC, 9/8 IBM, 15/8 HP, 17/8 Apple, 19/8 Ford Motor Co
and lots, lots more at iana.org

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MIT - Everything with an 18. Address? - Language suggestion ...
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 17 2013 @ 10:24 AM EST
s/wtf/wth/

e.g. What the heck ?

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I don't see a problem
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 17 2013 @ 03:40 PM EST

As I understand, ipv6 is a 32 character hexidecimal code. That means 32 characters each with one of 16 possible choices. The number of possibilities =

    16^32 or 3.4E+381
How many people in the world? Let's just round that off at 7 Billion. How many addresses per person?
    3.4E+38 / 7,000,000,000 = 4.8E+28
What percentage of the total addresses does MIT "own"?
    17,000,0002/3.4E+38*100 = 4.9E-30
Sorry. Based on the numbers, I see absolutely zero issues when:
    A) MIT has a significantly small percentage of the total possible/available
    B) MIT has less then the average per person if the addresses were spread out among the population of the world
To put those numbers into further context.

If the first set of 4 values in the address were assigned per continent that would be 16^4/7 = 9,362 assigned groups. A single one of those groupings amounts to 16^28, or 5.1E+33, addresses. That's 7.4E+23 per person on the planet if we assign that one group to the entire planet instead of the continent. MIT's percentage of that group would be 3.2E-25

There's seriously absolutely no correlation with regards wealth looking only at the numbers of addresses. Perhaps you can identify the relative costs instead of just trying to link up number of ipv6 addresses?


1: For those unfamiliar with scientific notation, that's shifting the zeros 38 positions to the right. A negative E-5 would shift the decimal to the left.

Example, .00005 percent (5/100 thousandths of a percent) is written as "5.0E-5" - so you can have an idea just how small E-25 is.

2: Rounded up for ease of calculation.

RAS

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