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Estimating the number of grains of sand on Earth is difficult. This source suggests 7.5x10¹⁸ grains (7.5 quintillion), but only includes beaches (deserts, under-sea sand and other sources not included.) This source suggests 10²⁰ to 10²⁴ grains (up to septillion grains of sand).

The number of addresses IPv6 could possibly address is 2¹²⁸ (excluding reserved addresses), or about 3.4x10³⁸ (340 decillion). Even if you remove the reserved addresses you're still left with far more IPs than grains.

In fact, assuming the most number of grains of sand - around 10²⁴ - 294 femtopercent (yes, femto, 10^-15) would be used if every grain were allocated an IP. You could allocate 340 billion planets with the same number of grains of sand before you even came close to filling up the address space. After all that, you'd still have 2.8x10^35 (280 decillion) addresses free.

I call dibs on 145A:8A72:331A:2807::E822; grainofsand148579317.com will point to it.

Estimating the number of grains of sand on Earth is difficult. This source suggests 7.5x10¹⁸ grains (7.5 quintillion), but only includes beaches (deserts, under-sea sand and other sources not included.) This source suggests 10²⁰ to 10²⁴ grains (up to septillion grains of sand).

The number of addresses IPv6 could possibly address is 2¹²⁸ (excluding reserved addresses), or about 3.4x10³⁸ (340 decillion). Even if you remove the reserved addresses you're still left with far more IPs than grains.

In fact, assuming the most number of grains of sand - around 10²⁴ - 294 femtopercent (yes, femto, 10^-15) would be used if every grain were allocated an IP. You could allocate 340 billion planets with the same number of grains of sand before you even came close to filling up the address space. After all that, you'd still have 2.8x10^35 (280 decillion) addresses free.

Estimating the number of grains of sand on Earth is difficult. This source suggests 7.5x10^18 grains (7.5 quintillion), but only includes beaches (deserts, under-sea sand and other sources not included.) This source suggests 10^20 to 10^24 grains (up to septillion grains of sand).

The number of addresses IPv6 could possibly address is 2^128 (excluding reserved addresses), or about 3.4x10^38 (340 decillion). Even if you remove the reserved addresses you're still left with far more IPs than grains.

In fact, assuming the most number of grains of sand - around 10^24 - 294 femtopercent (yes, femto, 10^-15) would be used if every grain were allocated an IP. You could allocate 340 billion planets with the same number of grains of sand before you even came close to filling up the address space. After all that, you'd still have 2.8x10^35 (280 decillion) addresses free.

I call dibs on 145A:8A72:331A:2807::E822; grainofsand148579317.com will point to it.

Estimating the number of grains of sand on Earth is difficult. This source suggests 7.5x10¹⁸ grains (7.5 quintillion), but only includes beaches (deserts, under-sea sand and other sources not included.) This source suggests 10²⁰ to 10²⁴ grains (up to septillion grains of sand).

The number of addresses IPv6 could possibly address is 2¹²⁸ (excluding reserved addresses), or about 3.4x10³⁸ (340 decillion). Even if you remove the reserved addresses you're still left with far more IPs than grains.

In fact, assuming the most number of grains of sand - around 10²⁴ - 294 femtopercent (yes, femto, 10^-15) would be used if every grain were allocated an IP. You could allocate 340 billion planets with the same number of grains of sand before you even came close to filling up the address space. After all that, you'd still have 2.8x10^35 (280 decillion) addresses free.

I call dibs on 145A:8A72:331A:2807::E822; grainofsand148579317.com will point to it.

Estimating the number of grains of sand on Earth is difficult. This source suggests 7.5x10^18 grains (7.5 quintillion), but only includes beaches (deserts, under-sea sand and other sources not included.) This source suggests 10^20 to 10^24 grains (up to septillion grains of sand).

The number of addresses IPv6 could possibly address is 2^128 (excluding reserved addresses), or about 3.4x10^38 (340 decillion). Even if you include the reserved addresses you're still left with far more IPs than grains.

In fact, assuming the most number of grains of sand - around 10^24 - 294 femtopercent (yes, femto, 10^-15) would be used if every grain were allocated an IP. You could allocate 340 billion planets with the same number of grains of sand before you even came close to filling up the address space. After all that, you'd still have 2.8x10^35 (280 decillion) addresses free.

I call dibs on 145A:8A72:331A:2807::E822; grainofsand148579317.com will point to it.

Estimating the number of grains of sand on Earth is difficult. This source suggests 7.5x10^18 grains (7.5 quintillion), but only includes beaches (deserts, under-sea sand and other sources not included.) This source suggests 10^20 to 10^24 grains (up to septillion grains of sand).

The number of addresses IPv6 could possibly address is 2^128 (excluding reserved addresses), or about 3.4x10^38 (340 decillion). Even if you remove the reserved addresses you're still left with far more IPs than grains.

In fact, assuming the most number of grains of sand - around 10^24 - 294 femtopercent (yes, femto, 10^-15) would be used if every grain were allocated an IP. You could allocate 340 billion planets with the same number of grains of sand before you even came close to filling up the address space. After all that, you'd still have 2.8x10^35 (280 decillion) addresses free.

I call dibs on 145A:8A72:331A:2807::E822; grainofsand148579317.com will point to it.