So we are heading to Milwaukee for its PrideFest this weekend. It is our <pause> fourth (?) annual trip. Milwaukee is close enough that the drive is not really worth mentioning but far enough that it feels different enough to feel like vacation. Rachel's friend who lives in Milwaukee called her to ask if we were coming again. Apparently, his friends wanted to know if the "fun couple" from Chicago would be coming again. 
They like us! They really like us!
So, how big of a geek am I being right now? I'm trying to figure out how many digits in the answer to
I'm not exactly sure why. Well, partly its because this is the number of permutations of a sequence of one million octets, i.e. a 1MB message. The real reason is that I think it's "neat" that Common Lisp has builtin support for big numbers.
They like us! They really like us!So, how big of a geek am I being right now? I'm trying to figure out how many digits in the answer to
(expt 256 (expt 10 6))
I'm not exactly sure why. Well, partly its because this is the number of permutations of a sequence of one million octets, i.e. a 1MB message. The real reason is that I think it's "neat" that Common Lisp has builtin support for big numbers.