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Started by Legend, Sep 02, 2014, 07:17 PM

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Legend

I feel like this is really difficult to quantify.  

Would that include different copies of the same book?
Even if no, would that include different versions of the same book?

Would that include notebooks?
If yes, would that include what would essentially be different versions of the same notebook?
Did some math.


For each text or group of texts, do regular text compression but per word instead of per letter. That could get it down to 1 or 2 bytes per word on average. Then say an average book is 100,000 words and google says 130,000,000 books have been written. It'd take terabytes at least to store everything.

So for modern smart phones it's a no, but in a generation or two it might be possible.


Copies don't really matter as long as you can compress them off the original.