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Art Kreymer (kreymer@fnal.gov)
Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:32:14 -0500 (CDT) 

Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:32:14 -0500 (CDT)
From: Art Kreymer <kreymer@fnal.gov>
Subject: Re: [mSQL] capacity of msql
Message-Id: <Pine.OSF.3.93.960910111739.6264B-100000@ea831.fnal.gov>

On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Gary Bickford wrote:

> >100 milligrams of data doesn't sound like very much.... :)
>
> This has been a question in my mind for some years - how much does a bit
> weigh (mass), anyway? This may be the key to quantum informatics.
>

This is deep and fundamental theoretical question. Whatever the answer,
100 milligrams of data is surely an enourmous quantity of information,
probably more than all the data stored on all the computers in the world.
MSQL cannot handle that much.

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