Count To 1,000,000,000 - Software by me

I quickly programmed a piece of software to write a text file counting to 1,000,000,000 or 1 billion. Every line has the next sequential number.

It is currently counting the time it's taking in Milliseconds.

My next step is to ask Google if they would build a super computer (skulltrail) platform for me to run a piece of software to count to, you guessed it, a google. which is a number with 100 zeros after it.

It would be interesting how long it takes and how much hard drive space it takes up.

When I checked the text file on my computer, I was up to around 2.4 million and its already taking 35MB.
I'm estimating it will take about 17.5 GBs when it is done.

If you would like a copy of the software, let me know and I'll set you up with it to count to what ever number you want.

Post comments here. I'll let you all know how many milliseconds it takes to complete! Bye for now, I don't want to steal precious CPU time from the software!

-Trace

Program it to count to a google. I want to kill a laptop. =D

K, I'll get right on it!
Haha, I maxed out the maximum number of pages allowed in MS Word
What time would you like it to record it? Minutes, hours, days, years? Centuries? haha

months or years sounds good to me


hell, I might just run it on my server and see how long I can keep it going, lol

It will take plenty of time. I'm thinking its going to take me a week or two just to reach 1 billion.

I'll make it print out every hour what number its on.

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Originally Posted by Trace

It will take plenty of time. I'm thinking its going to take me a week or two just to reach 1 billion.

I'll make it print out every hour what number its on.

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alright


and oh man this is going to be crazy

Should work, you can find it here: http://rapidshare.com/files/10394927...oogle.zip.html

Report any errors and I'll fix them!

Doesn't look like it can handle that much data. Let me make a work around. h/o

This seems interesting... I'll keep my eye on it.

Ok, here is a version that will run to 10 billion: http://rapidshare.com/files/10395093...oogle.zip.html
Report any errors, looks like it will work.
It should report every hour what number it is on

Thanks for the eye. I'm going to write a letter to Google I think

You're welcome and I forgot the eye.

*insert eye here*