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The calculations are off. 128 bit addressing allow for more than 3.40 x 10^38 addresses, and your storage example is 1.76 x 10^18 bits. That is, if we address the individual bits (we do not), we don't even have a name for the unit denoting that magnitude of space addressable left when using 128 bit addresses.



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