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Re:Someone Has Domain for Carly Fiorina’s Name and Is Pretty... by teamhappy on Monday May 04, 2015 @10:27AM (#9486299)
I can't wrap my head around the fact that I actually believe this is a reasonable way to visualize the data.
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Re:Someone Has Domain for Carly Fiorina’s Name and Is Pretty... by rev_bird on Monday May 04, 2015 @10:46AM (#9486439)
I've been pondering this for a little while -- I agree with you, and I think it's because the point being conveyed isn't the data, but the scale.
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Re:Someone Has Domain for Carly Fiorina’s Name and Is Pretty... by vinceguidry on Monday May 04, 2015 @10:54AM (#9486496)
http://xkcd.com/1162/
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Re:Someone Has Domain for Carly Fiorina’s Name and Is Pretty... by teamhappy on Monday May 04, 2015 @12:49PM (#9487324)
Exactly. 32 bytes from /dev/random doesn't sound like much. 2^256 still doesn't sound like much. But 115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007913129639936 makes your point (the point being that it's a effing big number).
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