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Re:AWS adds an extra 5.5M IPv4 addresses by p1mrx on Saturday August 14, 2021 @10:08AM (#28180766)
> We don't need every atom in the universe to be able to have 16 public addresses.

IPv6 isn't even remotely that big. There are about 10^38 IPv6 addresses, 10^50 atoms on Earth, and 10^80 atoms in the universe.

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Re:AWS adds an extra 5.5M IPv4 addresses by robbedpeter on Sunday August 15, 2021 @02:33AM (#28186662)
So you could probably address every grain of rice throughout all of human history, but not every atom on the planet.
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