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by arijun 2940 days ago
I was curious, so I threw it into Wolfram alpha:

(weight of a sheet of paper) * 5^64

.4 x Milky Way mass

Almost half the galaxy mass, that's a lot of grains of rice!

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Actually it's a LOT more than that, since each of the 5 colors has 128 possible values. There's some duplication (same color slot, trivial rotations and reflections and such) but I think the order of magnitude is probably "cluster of galaxies" at a minimum :-)
Wow, that increases it by a lot; it's much, much heavier than the mass of the visible universe [0]. Universe is ~1e50 kg, the marketing exec's request was ~1e500kg. Now you can go back in time and tell them just how wrong they are ;)

[0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?source=frontpage-immediat...