On Sat, 8 Jun 2013 18:21:07 -0400, Harry Wahl wrote: >I wonder how that compares to all the data stored on DNA in all living things >on earth and the sum of all the natural, intrinsic data in all its forms of >the physical universe? > > From:
http://physics.aps.org/story/v9/st27 ... 10^120 bits ... Probably worth what I paid for it, plus the value of the fact checking I invested. At some point, the bit becomes the more natural unit of information than the byte. I wonder what fraction of the worlds data CERN's 100 petabytes represents. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN