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by zozbot234 1837 days ago
Apparently, the whole Library of Congress collection would take up 10 petabytes of storage, give or take. So the size of the Library of Alexandria can be very roughly assessed at 1.2 microLoC's.
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steelbrain 1837 days ago
Some archives store books in image format in addition to text, is that 10 petabytes of pure text?
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AlotOfReading 1837 days ago
The LoC has extensive media collections besides the books. The textual collection is on the order of 10 terabytes of data though, not petabytes.
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sasaf5 1837 days ago
For a moment I was wondering what a micro Line of Code is... then I noticed the mention to the Library of Congress.
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