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[Sil Greene <Sil_greene AT unc.edu>]

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Michael D. Thomas wrote:

> I wonder what the longest character string out
> there is? No theoretical strings allowed, of
> course. Maybe the most precise computation
> of PI thus far developed? Maybe one of our
> world's really big databases, depending
> on how you constrain the problem? Maybe
> something with the genome projects?

My bet's on the Terraserver (or some similar massive database).  Display 
the whole db into hex and it's one really long string.  Display the whole 
thing as binary and it's even longer (4x!!).

--Sil

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