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Re:IBM has found a way to store data on a single atom by zem on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @11:26PM (#13826983)
why? for those who know how big a song is, you can easily translate. for those who have no idea but roughly know how many songs their music players can hold it is a far more meaningful measure than units of 'bit'
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Re:IBM has found a way to store data on a single atom by KeytarHero on Thursday March 09, 2017 @12:00AM (#13827108)
Are we talking 2-minute punk songs, 4-minute pop songs, or 20-minute jazz-prog odysseys? And is this CD quality wav, or 128 kbps mp3?
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Re:IBM has found a way to store data on a single atom by function_seven on Thursday March 09, 2017 @12:30AM (#13827223)
4 minutes. A typical length for a song.
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Re:IBM has found a way to store data on a single atom by ars on Thursday March 09, 2017 @12:13AM (#13827159)
And for those like me, who don't know either of those things, can you please translate into bytes?
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Re:IBM has found a way to store data on a single atom by shawnz on Thursday March 09, 2017 @12:53AM (#13827302)
about 5 megs.
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Re:IBM has found a way to store data on a single atom by ars on Thursday March 09, 2017 @01:50AM (#13827559)
So 130TB.

Was it really easier for them to say 26 million songs?

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Re:IBM has found a way to store data on a single atom by stan_rogers on Thursday March 09, 2017 @09:26AM (#13829438)
Not easier, just more meaningful to more people.
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