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Apple is giving classrooms 200GB of free iCloud storage for each student. But for now, consumers remain stuck with just 5GB, and that’s not nearly enough.
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Perhaps 200GB is not far away for all of us. Actually, I am ready for a terabyte or two.
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Looking at that in terms of capacity
1 Gigabyte = 1,073,741,824 Bytes
200 GB = 214,748,364,800 Bytes
1 Terabyte = 1,099,511,627,776 Bytes
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Now, suppose 1 billion people each have 1TB
If I did the math correctly, 1,099,511,627,776,000,000,000
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So I looked that up on Stack Overflow and got
"The mathematical result of 1000000000 << 40 is 1099511627776000000000, which exceeds 264-1 (actually it exceeds 269) and cannot be represented as a uint64_t . For a signed left operand, this would be an overflow resulting in undefined behavior.” (and more)
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And that is only for one billion people!
So where we going to store it all?
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