Like many, I have spent the last two days hitting the refresh button on my Yahoo NCAA Bracket.

I was curious as to how many possible bracket picks there are. Being a computer guy this is a very easy question to answer. A game is binary, you either win, or you loose. There are 63 games played. (32+16+8+4+2+1 or 11111 in binary)

Anyways 2 outcomes for each 63 games is 2^63 possibilities. Thats far, far, far more than what most people would expect.
In computer terms that is over 8 million terabytes of data!

Here is a little binary math:
2^10 = 1024 == 1000 == 1k
2^30 = 1k*1k*1k ==1 gig
2^40 = 1k*1gig == 1 tb
2^50 = 1k * 1tb
2^60 = 1k * 1k * 1tb == 1 million terrabytes
2^3 = 8

8 Million Terabytes!