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From Jonathan Gebbie

You state that the war in Iraq was actually fought over alien technology from a crashed UFO, as reported by the New Zealand website Stuff (Feedback, 3 May).

I was interested to note that the URL of Stuff’s report requires 18 digits and a letter to specify this story. Does this imply the Stuff website is designed to carry a maximum number of 26 × 10¹⁸ stories (if the digits may be replaced by any digit and the letter replaced by any letter) or even 36¹⁹ stories (if the digits and letter may be replaced by any digit or letter)?

Given a conservative estimate that each story would take up 1 kilobyte of memory, this would imply that the web server has 3.7 × 10²⁹ bytes of memory, equal to 314 million yottabytes or (according to one proposed system) 300 wekabytes of memory.

Does this suggest that the operators of the Stuff website are already in possession of alien technology beyond anything Saddam Hussein had? I think we should be told.

London, UK