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0 pointskmm8mo ago0 comments

Perhaps that's meant to be 50GB (and that still seems like a serious underestimation)? Just the Bible is already 5MB.

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English Wikipedia without media alone is ~24 GB compressed.

kmmOP8mo ago

I don't see how the size of Wikipedia has any bearing on the 50MB figure given for pre-20th century literature by the parent.

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0 pointskmm8mo ago0 comments

Perhaps that's meant to be 50GB (and that still seems like a serious underestimation)? Just the Bible is already 5MB.

English Wikipedia without media alone is ~24 GB compressed.

kmmOP8mo ago

I don't see how the size of Wikipedia has any bearing on the 50MB figure given for pre-20th century literature by the parent.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse