Re: too much information!
From: David Bernier (david250_at_videotron.ca)
Date: 01/10/05
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:50:21 -0500
baez@galaxy.ucr.edu wrote:
> In article <41e24162$0$256$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk>,
> Michael Jørgensen <ingen@ukendt.dk> wrote:
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>>"John Baez" <baez@galaxy.ucr.edu> wrote in message
>>news:crt513$rjo$1@glue.ucr.edu...
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>>>http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/information.html
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>>The complete works of Shakespeare is only 5 megabytes? That corresponds to
>>five short novels. I'm surprised.
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>
> I'm holding the complete works of Shakespeare in my hand;
> not counting the index it's 1280 pages, which is indeed about
> 5 short novels. If I used the figure that a typewritten page
> is 2 kilobytes, this would be just 2.6 megabytes. But in fact
> the print on these pages is pretty small, so 5 megabytes seems
> reasonable.
[...]
In the 1950's, RAND produced a table of a million
random digits, and another one with
"100,000 Normal Deviates". ( link is below)
Having downloaded the 1 million digits (line numbers included),
I wrote a program to save them as a file with
12,500 lines at 80 digits per line.
This got compressed to a 484,760-byte *.zip file.
David Bernier
RAND link:
http://www.rand.org/publications/classics/randomdigits/randomdata.html
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