MrJimmy on Nostr: For some reason my daughter wanted me to ask AI how many nanoseconds in a billion ...
For some reason my daughter wanted me to ask AI how many nanoseconds in a billion years (there are a billion nanoseconds in a second). For fun I took it a step further and compared it to sha256. I hope this is true as it staggered even me:
Imagine:
• Each nanosecond in a billion years = one lottery ticket.
• SHA-256 is a lottery where you need the one winning ticket.
• Even if you got one ticket every nanosecond for a billion years, you’d still be short by a factor of 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10⁵²).
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2025-09-30 22:19:29 UTCEvent JSON
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