@SketchesbyBoze This is why in my 30s I'm getting all the tattoos and piercing my ears and trying new things and getting weird pets. I spent my whole life being who someone else wanted me to be. Done with that. Forever.
Growing up, some of us had our joys and enthusiasms bullied out of us. There’s no feeling like getting older and embracing the parts of yourself you were shamed into hiding. Embrace the joy of being your passionate, nerdy, splendidly strange self.
present day x86 systems use no more than 52 actual bits for addressing memory (physical or virtual; usually less than that), which means you could safely represent any memory address with x86 as a double precision floating point