So I was wondering how many floppies you would need to store every possible MD5 hash, I whipped up a little python program to help me. I also added some other units to give you some idea of the magnitude of the numbers involved. Note that I am using the programmers version of megabyte (1024*1024 bytes) etc.
| Space needed to store all possible MD5 hashes | |
|---|---|
| 5444517870735015415413993718908291383296 | bytes |
| 5316911983139663491615228241121378304 | kilobytes |
| 5192296858534827628530496329220096 | megabytes |
| 3692299988291432980288352945223179 | 3.5 high density floppies |
| 7988149013130504043893071275723 | cds 650Mb version |
| 5070602400912917605986812821504 | gigabytes |
| 1078851574833345673835790826676 | dvds single sided single layer |
| 202824096036516704239472512860 | blueray single layer disks |
| 101412048018258352119736256430 | blueray double layer disks |
| 13611294676837538538534984297 | units of the largest hardrive in my house |
| 4951760157141521099596496896 | terabytes |
| 3961408125713216879677197516 | human brains |
| 264093875047547791978479834 | libraries of congress |
| 4835703278458516698824704 | petabytes |
| 859680582837069635346614 | google server farms (estimated) |
| 54445178707350154154139 | Data's (From Star Trek) |
| 4722366482869645213696 | exabytes |
| 29514790517935282585 | units of world storage as of 2006 |
| 4722366482869645213 | units of world storage projected for 2010 |
| 4611686018427387904 | zettabytes |
| 2419785720326673517 | units of information in 1 gram of DNA |
| 4503599627370496 | yottabytes |
If you want the English name of the number, then use this page
And for comparison here is this table:
| Space needed to store all 32 bit integers | |
|---|---|
| 17179869184 | bytes |
| 16777216 | kilobytes |
| 16384 | megabytes |
| 11650 | 3.5 high density floppies |
| 25 | cds 650Mb version |
| 16 | gigabytes |
| 3 | dvds single sided single layer |
