Tuesday, May 02, 2017

[ovvwqpvl] Area of the earth in bits

The surface area of the earth is about 5.10e14 square meters.

It would take 48.9 bits to address a particular square meter.  68.8 bits for square millimeter.

64 bits gives regions 27.6 square millimeters, the area of a square with side 5.3 mm.

Previously, meshing the earth.

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