Thanks

Thanks to Josh "Shorti" Myer, who is a lot less lazy than I am, for calculating
     N, given 2N=1,000,000
based on
     (log10 1000000) / (log10 2)
According to Shorti, the actual value is
     219.93156856932
and it might be a repeating fraction thereafter (his MS-Win's built-in calculator could not prove it any better than this.)
Thanks to Bill Bohan who is a lot more careful than I am, for pointing out that I had somehow gotten off track by orders of magnituted in my 1997 version of the file, an astronomical blunder. I had calculated the chart by hand, which goes against the whole reason why they built the ENIAC in the first place.

Mr. Bohan also gets a Good Netizen award for pointing out my rather foolish errors with civility and a bit of humor.

And no thanks to the two nasty-grams I recieved on the same topic. Didn't bother to make note of the social misfits who sent 'em.


Most honorable mention to Roy W. Clickery as I used his Data Powers of Ten document to verify my Powers of Two, although, unlike Mr. Clickery, the fact that a kilobyte is 1,024 bytes isn't 1,000 bytes does keep me awake at night.
I'm not worthy! Thank you Don Knuth for giving me my 15 minutes of fame with his reference to one of my documents in your Recent News (1999) document. I added his suggestions to my Powers of Two document after hearing of this. (For those who don't get it: This guy is one of the legendary computer people that you'll see honored on a postage stamp someday.)
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