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- From: Sil Greene <Sil_greene AT unc.edu>
- To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:26:10 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Michael D. Thomas wrote:
> > > I wonder what the longest character string out
> > > there is?
> > 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!!).
> I like it, assuming you can do a db dump of such a monster. I expect that no
> one has bothered to implement that function fully. :-)
Why do a db dump? Just take an image of the filesystem. :)
> If you constrain the problem to "the longest character string that has some
> real value other than being the longest character string," then you probably
> get something like the best approximation of pi (but probably longer).
I was -- the db file's "real value" is being the db. Granted, it isn't a
human-readable string, but what human is going to sit down and read in
entirety the best approximation of pi?
> I would
> like to define such a string as a naturally occurring string, with
> "naturally"
> being open to interpretation.
Hmm. That is an interesting constraint. I suppose the OED doesn't count
as "naturally occuring"? It would make a heckuva string...
--sil
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[internetworkers] Tuesday Morning Randomness
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[internetworkers] Tuesday Morning Randomness,
Dallas Smith, 11/12/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] Tuesday Morning Randomness,
Chris Hedemark, 11/12/2002
- Re: [internetworkers] Tuesday Morning Randomness, Steven Champeon, 11/12/2002
- [internetworkers] Tuesday Morning Randomness - answers, Dallas Smith, 11/12/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] Tuesday Morning Randomness,
Shea Tisdale, 11/12/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] Tuesday Morning Randomness,
Jason Laughlin, 11/12/2002
- Re: [internetworkers] Tuesday Morning Randomness, Chris Hedemark, 11/12/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] Tuesday Morning Randomness,
Shea Tisdale, 11/12/2002
- Re: [internetworkers] Tuesday Morning Randomness, Jason Laughlin, 11/12/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] Tuesday Morning Randomness,
Jason Laughlin, 11/12/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] Tuesday Morning Randomness,
Chris Hedemark, 11/12/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002,
Michael D. Thomas, 11/12/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002,
Sil Greene, 11/12/2002
- Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002, Chris Hedemark, 11/12/2002
- Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002, Michael D. Thomas, 11/13/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002,
Sil Greene, 11/12/2002
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[internetworkers] Tuesday Morning Randomness,
Dallas Smith, 11/12/2002
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