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HWR_14today at 2:06 PM4 repliesview on HN

There are about 18.446 quintillion more 64-bit integers than 32-bit integers.


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adrian_btoday at 2:52 PM

True, but there are as many 64-bit integers as pairs of 32-bit integers.

Therefore the fact that relatively few 64-bit numbers are products of 32-bit integers means that a lot of pairs of 32-bit integers give by multiplication the same product.

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moefhtoday at 2:40 PM

I think they meant to write "There are about 4 billion TIMES more 64 bit integers than 32 bit integers".

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bo1024today at 4:16 PM

There are about 2^64 more 64-bit integers than 32-bit integers.