i discovered a new word today.
well discovered is perhaps too strong a desciption for what happened, as all i did was to read a piece about ip addresses on the bbc website (i am not sure if this shows i am a techno savvy individual, a geek or sad and lonely - i am going with option c).
the story was about how microsoft have paid a lot of cash for the a chunk of ipv4 addresses because the remaining free addresses are running out (which means there are a whooping 4.3 billion internet connected devices out there).
without the ip you can't connect to the internet. oooops bad news bears.
don't worry though as ipv6 is out there - even if the costs of migrating to it are high and so take up has ben slow.
and that is where the new word comes in.
undecillion - which sounds more like someone can't make up their mind then a really big number, but a really big number is what it is. (according to the bbc to write it down you would have to use a 1 and 38 noughts - and that is a pretty big number , though not as big as it's bigger brother the centillion which is 10 to the power of 303, or in old english 10 to the power of 600. why the difference? it is all about short and long scale - or the fact american's just can't help messing with stuff).
so there you go a nice new word to drop into conversation.
it is not as much fun as 'bawdyhoose' (another new word for me) but much easier to get into the chitchat down the pub.
well discovered is perhaps too strong a desciption for what happened, as all i did was to read a piece about ip addresses on the bbc website (i am not sure if this shows i am a techno savvy individual, a geek or sad and lonely - i am going with option c).
the story was about how microsoft have paid a lot of cash for the a chunk of ipv4 addresses because the remaining free addresses are running out (which means there are a whooping 4.3 billion internet connected devices out there).
without the ip you can't connect to the internet. oooops bad news bears.
don't worry though as ipv6 is out there - even if the costs of migrating to it are high and so take up has ben slow.
and that is where the new word comes in.
undecillion - which sounds more like someone can't make up their mind then a really big number, but a really big number is what it is. (according to the bbc to write it down you would have to use a 1 and 38 noughts - and that is a pretty big number , though not as big as it's bigger brother the centillion which is 10 to the power of 303, or in old english 10 to the power of 600. why the difference? it is all about short and long scale - or the fact american's just can't help messing with stuff).
so there you go a nice new word to drop into conversation.
it is not as much fun as 'bawdyhoose' (another new word for me) but much easier to get into the chitchat down the pub.
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