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> On Thursday, 25 October, hundreds of Internet Archive supporters, volunteers, and staff celebrated addition of the 10,000,000,000,000,000th byte to the Archiv
by tripzilch 14y ago
> On Thursday, 25 October, hundreds of Internet Archive supporters, volunteers, and staff celebrated addition of the 10,000,000,000,000,000th byte to the Archive’s massive collections.
So, I bet everyone is dying to know, what was the 10,000,000,000,000,000th byte then?
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoConsidering it may have been binary, and binary would make up the majority of it (images, sounds, video are large), I'm guessing 0x00.
- chad_oliver 14y agoAssuming a uniform distribution, there's only a 1/256 chance of that.
- dkersten 14y agoimages, sounds, video are large these are unlikely to be a uniform distribution though
- espes 14y agoThese are usually compressed, so likely to be a uniform distribution.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoThe remainder isn't. There are always headers and such.
- cperciva 14y agoIf they weren't, they could be compressed better.
- nealabq 14y ago42 of course! Funny you should asterisk. (42 == '*')
- beernutz 14y agoIf you look at the picture, they SHOW the actual byte in binary! looks like it is 236 or 11101100