Monday, October 28, 2013

what is 64 bit?

Processors which have 64 bit word size is referred as 64 bits. In other terms, the processor have the size of the address is 64 bits or 8 octets or 2^64 bytes. In early 2000's, 64 bits personal computers started lining up in the market. But 64 bit machines are existed in the early 70's, i.e. during super computers dawn. In recent times, even 64 bit based smart phones going to be hit in the market. It is already initiated by apple for its latest iphone series (good move).

If you calculate the value 2^64= 18446744073709551616.
i.e.   18 quintillion 446 quadrillion 744 trillions 73 billions 709 millions 551 thousands 616


64 bit - That is the value. Seems very huge.
Check out my other post on 32 bit and 64 bithttp://edison-newworld.blogspot.com/2013/10/what-is-64-bit.html

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