• @lqdrchrd@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2663 months ago

    Size of an uncompressed image of the Washington Crossing the Delaware painting = 1 Yankee

    12 Yankees in a Doodle

    60 Doodles in an Ounce (entirely unrelated to the volume or weight usage of ounce)

      • @DahGangalang
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        123 months ago

        Better yet, just use “cooz” as the “common unit”

        Then it’s proportioned following fluid ounce measurements from there. e.g. “coc” (computer cup) is 16 coozes.

      • @pound_heap@lemm.ee
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        23 months ago

        I second this. It makes total sense - computer memory is a volume to be filled with data. They ain’t call parts of a hard drive volumes for nothing.

    • @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 months ago

      Sampled at what resolution, though? It’s a physical painting and the true, atomic-scale resolution would make this whole system useless.

      May I suggest the entire constitution in ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) instead? Bonus points if any future amendments change the whole system.

      Edit: I suppose you actually want to start small. Maybe just the declaration sans-signatures, then. So, 6610*7 = 46,270 bits.

    • Scrubbles
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      83 months ago

      Congrats, in my almost year on Lemmy, this is the best comment I’ve seen!