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by throw0101c 1247 days ago
> For one thing, a /64 issued to a house is a pretty daunting search space for the scanning worms of yesterday.

Some math to illustrate this:

* IPv4 has 2^32 addresses

* 2^32 ≈ 4 billion

* in mathematics, a^x = a^(y+z) = a^y * a^z

* so: 2^64 = 2^32 * 2^32

* therefore: 2^64 = four billion IPv4 Internets

One IPv6 subnet can fit many, many entire IPv4 Internets.