[WillAdams]

There was an examination of this sort of thing in the webcomic Freefall --- shortest story is 6 words, 100,000 words for English vocabulary, order matters --- it worked out to a data storage unit the size of a small moon.

[teddyh]

Links:

<http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2100/fv02058.htm>

<http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2100/fv02059.htm>

<http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2100/fv02060.htm>

[WillAdams]

Thanks for posting those! I was off by a factor of 10.