Thursday, August 31, 2006

useless fact for today:

the linux kernel if(2.6.17, 39m compressed)

encoded to punchcards would make a stack approx 1242 feet high.

roughly 124 stories tall or 10 ft shorter than the empire state building.

1 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

I read a wikipedia article pulled some numbers out of my ass and came to a less than perfect assumption. I suspect that i grossly over estimated the thickness due to dameage in my sample. (one crumpled punchcard, now rendered into woodgas and char) your much larger sample size allows for a higher level of confidence.

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