Re: Dinosaur killer probability

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Bruce Schneier (schneier@counterpane.com)
Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:22:50 -0600

At 02:15 PM 10/29/98 -0800, Greg Noel wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Bruce Schneier wrote:
>
>> Isn't n around 100,000?
>
>Only three orders of magnitude off (it should be 100,000,000 years) but
>that's not too bad for a cryptographer. {;-}

Just a difference of 2^{10}. Not at all a problem.
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