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The Encyclopædia Britannica has about 40,000,000 words [1] or about 0.25 GB if you assume 6 bytes per word. It’s impressive but not outlandish that an 8.1 GB file could encode a large swath of human information.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopædia_Britannica





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