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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 02:18:57 +1000
Subject: Re: Log base 2 of large integers
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:12 AM, Peter Pearson <ppearson@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
> MK Shen used to hang out on the sci.crypt newsgroup, so we're
> probably talking "cryptographically large" rather than "engineeringly
> large".

So "fairly large" means somewhere between googolplex an Graham's
Number, and after that they'd be called "very large"?

ChrisA