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What's wrong with paper?
by roschdal 4y ago
What's wrong with paper?
- amelius 4y agoVery long refresh rate.
- mdp2021 4y agoI could not begin to get why you would utter that, so I took a little pause before this, and took the opportunity to crunch some numbers. What's wrong with paper: well, it depends; for example, it is not reused - each chunk of represented info has to be stored -, and it is a stable medium with an important weight. Texts range from a content of 1MB to 100..200KB of chars at upper quintile and lower quintile. An A5 sheet may contain 1500 chars per side, and one square meter of paper, 80g of weight, 33.3 of them "pages", 100'000 chars per square meter. One MB of (printed) chars then weighs ~0.8kg. A small library of 1000 volumes weighs around half a ton (possibly even much more). Similarly for space.
- mdp2021 4y agoI just noted: such «small library of 1000 volumes [which would] weigh around half a ton», in chars would be the capacity of a CD. Which would be, 550kg for paper vs 0.016kg for a CD - 35'000 times the weight. Of course, other storage systems today would boost that number - though the dimension of the embedded library would be gigantic (one unity of measure above).