Thanks, Also, after a quick search I found this pretty cool calculation: This is also giving me a clearer understanding to what Matt Mahoney is really discussing. A petabyte is 1,125,899,906,842,624 (250) bytes, 1,024 Terabytes, or 1,048,576 Gigabytes. · 938,249,922,368 pages of plaintext<http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/p/plaintex.htm> (1,200 characters) · 4,691,249,611 books (200 pages or 240,000 characters) · 357,913,941 digital pictures (with 3MB average file size) · 268,435,456 MP3 audio files (with 4MB average file size) · 1,651,910 650MB CD's · 239,400 4.38GB DVD's · 41,943 25GB Blu-ray discs
From: Russell Wallace [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 9:57 AM To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Question 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]<mailto:[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> | Modify Your Subscription<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/1658954-f53d1a3f> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/1658954-f53d1a3f> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/1658954-f53d1a3f> AGI | Archives [https://www.listbox.com/images/feed-icon-10x10.jpg] | Modify Your Subscription<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/1658954-f53d1a3f> [https://www.listbox.com/images/listbox-logo-small.png]<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/1658954-f53d1a3f> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/1658954-f53d1a3f> ------------------------------------------- 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
