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Re:When your data doesn’t fit in memory: the basic techniques by ouid on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @12:38AM (#21511790)
well I can hold somewhat arbitrarily large integers in memory with the ackermann function, for instance.
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Re:When your data doesn’t fit in memory: the basic techniques by slavik81 on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @04:48AM (#21512861)
If I've read between the lines correctly, your point is that N bits allows you to represent 2^N values, but they don't have to be the values from 0 to 2^N.
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Re:When your data doesn’t fit in memory: the basic techniques by ouid on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @06:06PM (#21530764)
yes, sorry for being terse.
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