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by Dylan16807 1435 days ago
> Yes, if an atom was compressible to a bit, you could represent this many universes.

That would be 2^(2^hundreds). That's not the representation that's interesting here.

The interesting comparison is 2^1024 versus the number of things that exist or ever will exist.

If a piece of information has ever been written down, or will ever be written down, you can point to the exact place and exact time in much less than a thousand bits.