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- From: jhelling@cs.ruu.nl (Jeroen Hellingman)
- Subject: Re: How many volumes would all Greek writings fill?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.101125.21884@cs.ruu.nl>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 10:11:25 GMT
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- In <41281@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> ph600fcy@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (Matthew Harrington) writes:
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- >If someone compiled all of the literature, philosophy, history,
- >etc., written in classical Greek, how many volumes would this be?
- >Let us say that a volume is the size of an Encyclopedia Brittanica
- >volume, with which most people will be familiar.
- >
- This has actually been done. Almost everything from Homer till the Byzantine
- Period seems to fit on one CD-ROM, thesaurus lingua greacea. A CD-rom can
- contain about 600MegaBytes, But I don't know how filled up it is.
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- Jeroen
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