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yeah, iirc, that was some ancient persian mathematician who made a bet with a king. i forget if it cost him his life or not, but it's a perfect illustration. 2^64 is what modern computers use to calculate with. if i remember correctly, the number amounts to centuries or maybe even millennia of rice production.

The difference between the first square and the 64th square is all the difference in the world. Always bet on exponential math! 🚀

big numbers are the coolest thing in mathematics. hash functions, signatures, proximity hashes (used in LLMs) and pseudorandom number generators. i love that shit

GM 👀🇧🇷🤙