On Thursday 18 July 2013 22:07:44 John Kasunich did opine: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013, at 02:04 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > > I had a handful of mylar dots from a tape punch. Andy P called them > > antibits. 1/2 million lines would be a large pile of it - :) > > And Mike Payson wrote: > > Like others have said, gcode files for 3d printers van get BIG. > > I export all my gcode to a single directory > > > > I checked, and the largest file there is 1,708,605 lines and > > 51,650,578 characters long. > > Geek that I am, I just had to do the math: > > If that file was punched onto paper tape, the tape would be 81 > miles long. > > The pile of anti-bits would weigh about 25 lbs. > > If you wound the tape onto a single spool, it would be 13 > feet in diameter and weigh about 700 lbs. > > "Hey Stuart, we have a new program to load into the Haas. > Bring that forklift over here!"
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