John, HEH - Thank you for the geek input. :) Stuart
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:48 PM, John Kasunich <jmkasun...@fastmail.fm>wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013, at 02:04 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > > I had a handful of mylar dots from a tape punch. Andy P called them > > antibits. 1/2 million lines would be a large pile of it - :) > > And Mike Payson wrote: > > Like others have said, gcode files for 3d printers van get BIG. > > I export all my gcode to a single directory > > > > I checked, and the largest file there is 1,708,605 lines and > > 51,650,578 characters long. > > > > Geek that I am, I just had to do the math: > > If that file was punched onto paper tape, the tape would be 81 > miles long. > > The pile of anti-bits would weigh about 25 lbs. > > If you wound the tape onto a single spool, it would be 13 > feet in diameter and weigh about 700 lbs. > > "Hey Stuart, we have a new program to load into the Haas. > Bring that forklift over here!" > > > -- > John Kasunich > jmkasun...@fastmail.fm > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics > Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics > Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. > Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Addressee is the intended audience. If you are not the addressee then my consent is not given for you to read this email furthermore it is my wish you would close this without saving or reading, and cease and desist from saving or opening my private correspondence. Thank you for honoring my wish. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
