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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>,
Cyberculture <cyberculture@zacha.org>
Subject: sizes of works (fwd)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:57:56 -0400 (EDT)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:52:49 EDT From: FrancesVanScoy@aol.com To: sondheim@panix.com, sandy.baldwin@mail.wvu.edu, FrancesVanScoy@aol.com Subject: sizes of works http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci944596,00.html " Much of the following table is derived from figures calculated by Roy Williams on his page called "Powers of Ten."" Information object How many bytes A binary decision 1 bit A single text character 1 byte A typical text word 10 bytes A typewritten page 2 kilobytes (KB s) A low-resolution photograph 100 kilobytes A short novel 1 megabyte ( MB ) The contents of a 3.5 inch floppy disk 1.44 megabytes A high-resolution photograph 2 megabytes The complete works of Shakespeare 5 megabytes A minute of high-fidelity sound 10 megabytes One meter (or close to a yard) of shelved books 100 megabytes The contents of a CD-ROM 500 megabytes A pickup truck filled with books 1 gigabyte ( GB ) The contents of a DVD 17 gigabytes A collection of the works of Beethoven 20 gigabytes A library floor of academic journals 100 gigabytes 50,000 trees made into paper and printed 1 terabyte ( TB ) An academic research library 2 terabytes The print collections of the U.S. Library of Congress 10 terabytes The National Climactic Data Center database 400 terabytes Three years' of EOS data (2001) 1 petabyte ( PB ) All U.S. academic research libraries 2 petabytes All hard disk capability developed in 1995 20 petabytes All printed material in the world 200 petabytes Total volume of information generated in 1999 2 exabytes (EB s ) All words ever spoken by human beings 5 exabytes ************** Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient used cars. (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007)