Each address is a string of 32 binary digits, or bits, which allows for 4, 294, 967, 296 combinations.

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He used a similar trick to memorize the precise order of 4, 140 random binary digits in half an hour.

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Among the trillions of binary digits skittering across screens this summer, a vibrant minority have been gathered into a shrewd, coherent, and fully felt movie.

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Today's technology allows a fibre to carry 160 such streams, each with a capacity of 10 gigabits per second (one gigabit is a billion binary digits).

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