Well text is commonly stored as one byte per character, so 10^15 characters?
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Schwartz, Daniel <[email protected]>wrote: > Does anyone know how many characters 1 petabyte of text would be? **** > > ** ** > > I’m writing a story about the history of image scanners from the > perspective of a cyborg from the 26th century. **** > > ** ** > > I’m at a section where I’m claiming that a full explanation of the history > would take up 1 petabyte worth of characters, so it needs to be condensed > in the manner I(the cyborg) is illustrating.**** > > ** ** > > ++**** > > ** ** > > If anyone figures it out, could you also provide your calculation, I’d be > very interested to see how that works. **** > > ** ** > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/1658954-f53d1a3f> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
