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Guest posts on May 26th, 2009 by Pingdom
IPv6 can theoretically hold 2^128 IP addresses. As you’re probably aware of, that’s a huge number:
2^128 = 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456
Have you ever wondered how you would actually SAY that number if you had to read it out loud? A cool thing with Wolfram Alpha is that it will spell out numbers for you, making it possible for us to find this out without too much of a headache. Here’s the text version of the number:
340 undecillion, 282 decillion, 366 nonillion, 920 octillion, 938 septillion, 463 sextillion, 463 quintillion, 374 quadrillion, 607 trillion, 431 billion, 768 million, 211 thousand and 456
Read it out loud really fast. A bit of a mouthful… 
We write about IPv6 from time to time in this blog. You might want to check out a couple of our previous articles:
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Mobile podcast on February 9th, 2012 by Pingdom
Pingdom’s Podcast is a weekly show about Internet, web, security, and mobile stuff.
In this show, Saleh also gives us an update on the pending approval of his Carbon for Windows Phone Twitter client. We also talked about Nokia’s recent financial results, if Google Chrome can hit more than 50% market share this year, and the recent privacy-blunder by the guys behind the Path mobile app.
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Main on February 9th, 2012 by Pingdom
There’s no denying that Google Chrome continues to be the darling of the web browser market. And as we predicted in July last year, Chrome overtook Firefox around November 2011.
So now the question is, when will Google also wrestle down Internet Explorer, and become the undisputed king of the browser world? In December 2011, Chrome 15 became the most popular browser in the world, beating Internet Explorer 8, but if you combine all IE versions, Microsoft still holds the number 1 spot.
Equipped with the latest web browser statistics from StatCounter, we set out to see when Chrome is likely to achieve more than 50% market share.
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Main on February 8th, 2012 by Pingdom
Want to see how your favorite US sports site is doing, if it has a perfect 100% uptime score or not? If you want to check the latest scores and it isn’t working, could it be a problem with your computer or connection, or the site? We’ve got the solution for you!
For some time now we’ve been monitoring 34 major US sports and news sites related to sports. Our recent articles on the Super Bowl are a result of that monitoring.
Now you can look at how these sites are doing yourself on the public reports page for this list of US sports websites.
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Who has not used Google Maps? Raise your hand! Since the launch 7 years ago, Google Maps has become the de facto map service that users around the world go to for all their mapping needs.
As we say Happy Birthday to Google Maps, read on to find out some of the critical milestones in its history, and some amazing numbers and statistics.
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Main on February 7th, 2012 by Pingdom
In 2010, there were just over 1 million secure Internet websites worldwide. Almost half of those, or 446,992 to be exact, were located in the United States.
But in which country can we find the most secure websites in relation to population? The answer may surprise you.
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CaptainZM
July 30th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
If we ever have to switch to IPv8, we’ll know for sure there are too many computers in the world.
will
July 30th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
crap! we ran out of ip addresses!
archive of video game information
July 30th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Proper grammar wouldn’t include an “and” before 456.
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August 3rd, 2009 at 12:27 am
42?
project5k
August 6th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
For correct verbalization, the word “AND” should be used only to denote the location of the decimal, as in 100.21 would be one-hundred and 21 cents, (or hundredths), etc.