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I don't think anyone can properly visualize 20 million of anything.

• scott_s 17y ago
  No, we can't. But "20 million cabinets of text" has more meaning to us than 10^15 bytes.
  • ableal 17y ago
    That's what - one Empire State Building worth of cabinets ? 100 floors * 100 offices/floor * 20 cabinets/office = 200k cabinets ... Hmm. Off by a couple of orders of magnitude. More buildings or squeeze until the pips squeak.
    • ableal 17y ago
      Seems the E.S.B. volume is about 1 million cubic meters and a 4 drawer cabinet is about 0.4 cubic meters. So, ten buildings filled solid. Incidentally, data via Google. Wolfram Alfa pouted on the building query. (Yes, I'm easily amused. Or distracted: http://xkcd.com/356/ http://xkcd.com/356/)