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12.03.2021 • 
Mathematics

Considering Moore’s law, which roughly states that the cost to produce technology (specifically expressed as transistors, the switches inside a computer’s CPU) will be cut in half every 18 months. This means that if a transistor costs ten dollars today, then in approximately two years it will only cost five dollars. This law has been proven true over the past fifty years. The result has brought us an exponential grown in all things related to data processing. Basically, when a component gets cheaper, more people can afford it, which drives the cost down even more. As time goes on, the speed at which this growth increases can be predicted with an algorithm. We have basically used up all the IP addresses that were set up in the original IPV4. That number is listed above as 4,294,967,296. We can roughly calculate that to have occurred over a thirty-year period. Using those inputs, expecting the increase in growth to continue at its ever increasing rate, how long will it take to use up all the addresses in IPV6? Is this even possible? Why or why not?

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