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FeepingCreature | 24 days ago

I would be extremely surprised if it was that small.

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artisin|24 days ago

I was curious about the scale of 1TiB of text. According to WolframAlpha, it's roughly 1.1 trillion characters, which breaks down to 180.2 billion words, 360.5 million pages, or 16.2 billion lines. In terms of professional typing speed, that's about 3800 years of continuous work.

So post-deduplication, I think it's a fair assessment that a significant portion of high-quality text could fit within 1TiB. Tho 'high-quality' is a pretty squishy and subjective term.

FeepingCreature|21 days ago

Yes, a million books is a reasonably big library.

But I would be surprised if the internet only filled a reasonably big library.

kaibee|24 days ago

Well, a terabyte of text is... quite a lot of text.