[chrisshroba]

That 's only if you can make multiple cuts (or slits), and it's actually 8x less because we're talking about bits, not bytes.

With only one cut as the parent comment describes, you can only store the log base 2 of 100 billion, which is 36, so about 4 bytes of info, or one long integer.

[capitainenemo]

Ah true. 100 gigabits.. can't edit my comment now. But oh well, it was pretty rough anyway, so "on the close order" ;)