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Re: Wasted space

  • From: Randy Bush
  • Date: Thu Apr 29 19:35:21 1999 
>> domain names are finite.  254 char limit drawn from an 8-bit char set.
> $ bc
> 256^254
> 49311837877366649323600580884811328064642490645928167773636391338386\
> 00942820417921935608125537553934278674005267623599165972833122328326\
> 58311281622107670335702985799671951234310153163915857728680359766210\
> 69439038508288907840911493166867209378778336289339669574030006474132\
> 65364309855012299736389026478635486131947843882498538312526670313197\
> 24958132568898411896638150110768600863536200871492771279798342546336\
> 76061407041110011837155687183077462622686306172536143846476937385117\
> 82868915581833149250995402477804959206649465186461985527496130098804\
> 49926596639031121858756000207590413184793166384097191709192063287296
> 
> 256^4
> 4294967296

your point?