|
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
[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|
|
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 17 2013 @ 10:24 AM EST |
s/wtf/wth/
e.g. What the heck ?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|
|
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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|
|
|
|
|