It there ever going to be a program consisting of 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 lines of code?

Question

This is response to someone saying the size of a computer program is infinite.....

Answer 1

Consider: Each character is usually one byte. 2^30 bytes makes one gigabyte. For easier computation, I will use 10^44 (instead of 44 9's).

10^44 / 2^30 =
2^44 * 5^44 / 2^30 =
2^14 * 5^44 =
90 949 470 177 292 823 791 503 906 250 000

Thus, there are about: 90 949 470 177 292 823 791 503 906 250 000 gigabytes in a program of that size with just linebreaks.

Answer 2

Whilst the size of a computer program is infinite there is a tendency not to write large programs.

The task is usually broken down into logical units or sub programs. The final program when built may have this many machine instructions but current program design methods require programs to be created in small, re-usable, chunks.

Answer 3

Someday..yes, absolutely...And that is not such a big number as far as mathematics go....Like if you had said 10^300 lines of code...now that might be many millions of years from now, or never...

Answer 4

I wonder if there will ever be any more questions like this.

But anyway, why don't you find the factorial of 999999999999999999999999999999..., it'll give you something to do =)

Answer 5

I don't think there will ever be...
It may already be the end of the world

Answer 6

Not in your lifetime and not generated by humans. Perhaps someday, generated by arrays of quantum computers.

Answer 7

There already is. It's called Windows.

Answer 8

I dont think so.