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