Talk:18446744073709551616 (number)

Diagree with the speedy deletion nomination, if this is a power of 2 the number has some notability. At least: list this on vfd, not speedy deletions please. Sjakkalle 08:43, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Amen to that \wowzeryest\ (talk) 00:08, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

I'm inclined to think this is significant, although a redirect to a more general article on Powers of two, might be better. Rich Farmbrough 09:37, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I came to find info on this number, as it is one higher than the greatest number able to be represented by the datatype "unsigned long" in computer programming, aka an unsigned 64-bit integer. In visual studio, use of this number generates an error "Integral constant is too large" which indicates to me that there is no datatype that can be used on a 64-bit system to represent this or any larger integer. Given this, I agree with Sjakkalle's assertion that the number has some notability and may be worthy of an article.

Edit: There are larger data types, but the numbers need to be explicitly cast in the code. The number cannot be implicitly assigned a type by the compiler.Exintrovert (talk) 22:38, 9 August 2014 (UTC)


 * 763692111147737707 2603:8081:A300:34E1:EF6B:FFFB:B758:8364 (talk) 12:52, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Eighteen quintillion, four hundred and forty-six quadrillion, seven hundred and forty four trillion, seventy three billion, seven hundred and nine million, five hundred and fifty one thousand, six hundred and sixteen. The number of grains of rice on the last square of the chessboard. This number is a lot more important now we have 64 bit processors widely available. Maximum number of sectors under GPT. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:07, 31 August 2014 (UTC).

Number of Planets of No Man's Sky, game developed by HelloGames. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.35.77.1 (talk) 20:58, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Number of colors in the 64 bits deep color depth (16 bits + alpha channel) 37.175.20.173 (talk) 06:59, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Number of seeds in Minecraft apparently. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.25.117.137 (talk) 18:12, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

Number of possible hosts in a /64 IPv6 subnet. Opaz (talk) 16:27, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

Ha thats why i found this — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.12.103.9 (talk) 02:46, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/detailed-record/14671904?subquery=%7B%22queryTerm%22:%22TX0003256472%22,%22fieldHeading%22:%22Registration%20Number%22,%22searchType%22:%22Is%20(exact)%22%7D
https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/detailed-record/14671904?subquery=%7B%22queryTerm%22:%22TX0003256472%22,%22fieldHeading%22:%22Registration%20Number%22,%22searchType%22:%22Is%20(exact)%22%7D 2603:8081:A300:34E1:EF6B:FFFB:B758:8364 (talk) 12:53, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Check it
There is an old Chinese story about a king, who took a checkers/chess board and said to hid servants to put 1 rice on each square, but multiply it by 2 every square, on the first square (a1) they put 1 rice. on the second square they putted 2 rice pieces. On the third one they put 4 rice pieces, on the fourth they put 8 and so on and so on. before they have reached half of the board, they were unable to put rice on a square, and on the 22nd piece the rice supply had ended. And when you reach the last square, the 32nd square, its more stars than the entire universe. (The number is 18446744073709551616) 46.121.245.195 (talk) 11:12, 7 September 2023 (UTC)