- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 21:13:46 -0500
- To: John Black <JohnBlack@kashori.com>
- Cc: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com, Mikael Nilsson <mikael@nilsson.name>, "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@miscoranda.com>, www-tag@w3.org
John Black scripsit: > Isn't this assumption false with respect to the web? In general, I have no > idea what states the resources I visit may be in. Any given resource may be > a novel, a song, a picture, an email message, a movie, a blog post, etc., > etc. How could I possibly know the N possible states that 8 billion > resources can be in? We can if we set some reasonable upper limit to the size of a representation. For example, if we say that 1 TB is such an upper limit, then the resource is in one of about 2^(10^15) states, given that there are about 10^2 media types and there are ~ 10 bits/byte. -- The Unicode Standard does not encode John Cowan idiosyncratic, personal, novel, or private http://www.ccil.org/~cowan use characters, nor does it encode logos or graphics. cowan@ccil.org
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