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Dec 9th 2015, 22:14:25

A weird question, I may as well ask here - seeing as it kept me amused for a few minutes.

If every bit of digital data in existence on the internet were to be given ... say an electrons' mass per binary bit - how much would it weigh, and how big a bucket would you need to carry it ?
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Dec 10th 2015, 5:59:31

So, we're assuming, in this particular case that a point particle has volume? 9.4×10^−44 for the electron, eh?

Also, what standard data storage estimate are we going by? I've got them ranging from 670+ EB to +/- 1 Zettabyte.

I have some fuzzy math here, but I'm sure I'm a hair off. For starters, I used decimal, not binary. I'll hack at it later;
Cool question... I've been looking for an excuse to dig into the scipy library.

Raging Budda Game profile

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Dec 10th 2015, 16:29:49

I need a refresher on my data prefixes and how many crazy amounts of zeros those mean.
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Dec 10th 2015, 21:28:33

hehe, cheers guys :D
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