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dfabulich
2535 days ago
Where are you getting these numbers? Google says they get ~2 trillion searches per year. 40 trillion searches over 20 years (way too many) would be 2^44 searches.
https://searchengineland.com/google-now-handles-2-999-trilli...
(And they don’t even need to store all searches for all time for this, thanks to Bloom filters.)
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rdiddly
2535 days ago
The whole point was that 2^1471 is wrong.
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madez
2535 days ago
It is roughly 1.15^(365*20). That it is wrong was clear from its size. I wanted to use it's falseness to show that the assumptions are incorrect. Which they are, just not how I understood initially.
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