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How many characters are in the longest possible IPv6 address?

39

Background

A full IPv6 address has a maximum of 39 characters. It uses eight blocks of four hex digits and seven colons. IPv6 offers about 340 undecillion different addresses. You could give every single grain of sand on Earth its own address.

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