Chinese has approximately 64000 characters, if you in include all ideograms that have been found in historical documents; to uniquely label each by a number you need twice as many 8-bit bytes. Also doubling again to include all known human language symbol systems.
So: what is the current language/symbol system in your cyborg's world? On 3/14/2013 10:06 AM, Schwartz, Daniel wrote:
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. Apetabyteis 1,125,899,906,842,624 (2^50 ) bytes, 1,024 Terabytes, or 1,048,576 Gigabytes. ·*938,249,922,368*pages ofplaintext <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 26^th 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| ModifyYour 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/member/archive/303/=now> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/12987897-64924e57> | Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription [Powered by Listbox] <http://www.listbox.com>
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