On 9/11/03 9:50, Marta Edie wrote >Before any of you give me a lesson in math of how man kilobytes go >into a megabyte, I meant my question to deal with the amount of >written pages that might be sent , like for instance : how many >megabytes it would take for the last Harry Potter book to be >transmitted. I can't envision in my imagination how many written pages >a file a megabyte large might contain.
It all depends on the formatting. For a plain text file, 1 MB = 2^20 characters = roughly 160,000 words (using the bizarre standard from typing class that there are roughly 5 characters per word + one space per word). If the file is saved as a wordprocessing file, fewer characters, though I don't know any other rules of thumb. If the file has any graphics in it, it could be less than one graphic, so I guess that would be less than 1 character. Bill | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
