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> This is one of the world’s biggest proofs: it’s 200 terabytes long! That’s about equal to all the digitized text held by the US Library of Congress. There’s a
by chaosfox 10y ago
> This is one of the world’s biggest proofs: it’s 200 terabytes long! That’s about equal to all the digitized text held by the US Library of Congress. There’s also a 68-gigabyte digital signature—sort of a proof that a proof exists—if you want to skim it.
This sort of comparisons always bothers me, they make no sense.
Also according to the Nature post linked, the 68G "digital signature" is just the 200T compressed, just another sign that talking about the file sizes is meaningless.