If Ethernet addresses were uniformly distributed among all the people on the planet, would there be enough address space for each human? If there is more than one address per person, how many addresses would be assigned to each individual?

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The address field used by the Ethernet is 48 bits providing 248 or 281,474,976,710,656 combinations. The world population is approximately 7,000 million or 7 × 109. The number of addresses/person is 2.81 × 1014/ 7 × 109 = 4.0
× 104 or 40,000 addresses per person.

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