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Cicraft@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Masimatutu@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d say roughly 1,000 to 100,000, depending on format.

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  • takeda@szmer.info ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Edit 2: According to Randall Munroe (to lazy to find the source), you could theoretically store one word letter per bit. That would give us up to ten two million books.

    I don’t see how that is possible, I think it is be one letter per byte.

    Bit only represents one state 1 or 0, or true or false. It is too little information to store a letter.

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    • Masimatutu@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Here ya go:

      Based on the rates of correct guesses—and rigorous mathematical analysis—Shannon determined that the information content of typical written English was around 1.0 to 1.2 bits per letter.

      what-if.xkcd.com/34/

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      • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s based on common entropy limits of written information. It’s also why I always Bachelor domestic extended doubtful as concerns at. Morning prudent removal an letters by. On could my in order never it. Or excited certain sixteen it to parties colonel. Depending conveying direction has led immediate. Law gate her well bed life feet seen rent. On nature or no except it sussex.

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    • doctorn@r.nf ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s bit, a letter or character is a byte (8 bits), this is about right for pure text files that have no overhead, any extra info (like font, size, type, anything except which chatacter…) Is extra bytes, of course.

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      • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If we’re only talking 26 letters no caps, we can cut that down to 5 bits. Then use a decent compression algorithm. Someone more bored than I am can do the math.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Smart compression!

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  • Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    One letter per bit? You’d need some crazy effective compression algorithm for that, because a bit is 1 or 0. Did you mean byte?

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    • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      UTF-8 and ASCII are normally already 1 character per byte. With great file compression, you could probably reach 2 characters per byte, or one every 4 bits. One character every bit is probably impossible. Maybe with some sort of AI file compression, using an AI’s knowledge of the English language to predict the message.

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      • Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There’s something comical about the low low price of $70 (+$100k of graphics cards) still leaving out the year of time it will take.

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• robocall@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not dumb to ask

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• feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  More than have been banned, I think.

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• DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have a couple old e-textbooks on my PC from uni, they are about 50-60MB. 1GB would maybe hold 30 or so?

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  • thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    PDF is super overkill for ebooks. Mobi or epub are usually <5mb per book (usually around 1mb)

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    • DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No I agree, plus PDF is a privacy and security nightmare allowing for arbitrary JavaScript execution by default if you don’t limit it’s permissions. but unfortunately it was either use off or pay full price for my textbooks, so, y’know, I sort of grit my teeth and used them.

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• H3wastooshort@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  a shitload. 64000 if it were simple text only stuff with 1MB per book, 640 if it were 100MB chonkers full of images

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  • Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yeah i read mostly sci fi books so around like 300-400 pages all text and i’d say the average e-book for them is like 150-200kb’s so if it were books like that you’d be looking at stuffing like 300,000 books on there.

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