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'All 11 terabytes of our LIDAR data (that’s roughly equivalent to 2,750,000 MP3 songs)' or a stack of paper 513 kilometers high :)
by NickHaflinger 11y ago
'All 11 terabytes of our LIDAR data (that’s roughly equivalent to 2,750,000 MP3 songs)' or a stack of paper 513 kilometers high :)
- Cthulhu_ 11y ago[pedantic]Using what encoding, font, font size, margins, etc? [/pedantic]
- kraftman 11y agoAlso what gsm is the paper
- amag 11y agoAlso where would this stack of paper be placed? After all gravitational pull is not uniform around the planet.
- david-given 11y agoPaper's about 0.1mm thick. Therefore 513km of paper contains approximately 5.13 billion sheets. Given that there's 11TB of data, that means that each sheet contains about 2360 bytes. (Printing on one side.) That's an 80x30 grid. A4 is 210x297mm, so (holding the paper landscape for convenience and assuming a 2cm margin) that makes for 3.5x6.3mm letters. Different encodings give you slightly different sized letters, but it's all roughly the same. So I'd guess around 10 to 11 point. Has this helped?
- Caprinicus 11y agoThey aren't effectively using their paper then.
- nly 11y agoSo... what is the most dense, reliably machine readable, format that can be printed on ordinary paper with a consumer inkjet?