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Old March 9th, 2007, 12:10 AM
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capnq said:
That is a statistical analysis of how many times each word appears in a large body of English language texts.

I worked with a similar database at my last job, working for a professor researching computer recognition of speech.


Yeah but ... why post it on the web, and why is Google indexing it? Yeah, I know, ... Why not? and Because are options. Still weird 'tho.

Check out this Fark link (remember, Fark webpage has naughty adverts): {The world generated 161 exabytes of digital information last year. That's 161 billion gigabytes}

Scroll down for an interesting breakdown of examples of really big numbers, we once had a thread on this subject here on Shrapnel.
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