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The amount of digitally stored information in the world as of May 2009 [1] is in the order of 2^71. There's no way a single process in a Linux distro will live long enough to read 2^80 bytes for the foreseeable future.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/may/18/digital-cont...



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