How many potential IP address are there?

The maximum is approximately A LOT

IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses, which limits the address space to 4,294,967,296 possible unique addresses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address

4.3 billion potential IP addresses, not all are available for use.

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