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How much is 10,000,000,000 nibbles?

It's about one-one-millionth as much as The Letters Delivered by the US Postal Service in 2010
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The amount of The Letters Delivered by the US Postal Service in 2010 is about 10,000,000,000,000,000.0000000000000000000 nibbles.
(2010 figures)
All letters delivered by the United States Postal Service in 2010 will equate to 10,000,000,000,000,000.0000000000000000000 nibbles of data if stored digitally. In delivering the mail, the Postal Service fleet travels a total of 1.25 billion miles annually.
It's about 2,000,000 times as much as a Page of Text
The amount of a Page of Text is about 4,800 nibbles.
(50 lines, 50 characters per line, ASCII encoding)
A 50-character-per-line, 50-line page of Latin alphabet text requires 5,000 nibbles when digitally represented. The Google Books project, which has produced hundreds of millions of pages of digital text, used a robotic device to digitize over eight million titles at a rate of about 1,000 pages per second.
It's about 0.00000010 times as much as Mozy
The amount of Mozy is about 100,000,000,000,000,000.00000000000000000000 nibbles.
(2009 figures) (total file storage)
Mozy, the online data backup service, stores about 100,000,000,000,000,000.00000000000000000000 nibbles of data backed up its users. Founded in 2005, Mozy's customer base has grown to 1 million personal and 60,000 business subscribers in just 5 years.
It's about 0.00000007 times as much as The Books in the Library of Congress
The amount of The Books in the Library of Congress is about 100,000,000,000,000,000.00000000000000000000 nibbles.
(2009 figures) (digitized entire collection)
The total collection of books, photographs, and other media housed by the United States Library of Congress would occupy about 200,000,000,000,000,000.00000000000000000000 nibbles if fully digitized. The collection contains a total of 142,544,498 items as of 2009.
It's about 50,000,000 times as much as a Magnetic Stripe Card
The amount of a Magnetic Stripe Card is about 200 nibbles.
(maximum capacity; per ISO 7811 specification)
The storage capacity of a magnetic stripe on a credit or identification card is about 300 nibbles. According to legend, Forrest Parry, the IBM engineer who developed the first magnetic stripe card in 1960, was able to solve the problem of adhering the strip to the card after his wife suggested using an iron.
It's about 0.000000009 times as much as The Spotify Catalog
The amount of The Spotify Catalog is about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000.000000000000000000000 nibbles.
(2018 figures)
Spotify, the music streaming service that serves over 170 million users per year, hosts a data catalog of about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000.000000000000000000000 nibbles on a Google Cloud Platform solution. In 2017, users listened to Spotify for a total of over 40.3 billion hours.
It's about 0.0000000010 times as much as The Internet
The amount of The Internet is about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000.0000000000000000000000 nibbles.
(2005 figures) (estimated)
Although the Internet is continuously changing, a 2005 estimate by Google CEO Eric Schmidt was that the total amount of data on the Internet would measure about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000.0000000000000000000000 nibbles. An estimated 1 trillion web pages are published on the Internet, excluding photos, videos, and music content.
It's about 0.00000000000010 times as much as All Spoken Words in Human History (recorded)
The amount of All Spoken Words in Human History (recorded) is about 99,000,000,000,000,002,097,152.0000000000000000000000000 nibbles.
(2003 figures) (assumes 16 Khz, 16-bit mono recording)
Criticizing a 2002 estimate of 12,000,000,000,000,000,000.0000000000000000000000 nibbles, linguist and University of Pennsylvania professor Mark Liberman asserted that it would actually require 99,000,000,000,000,002,097,152.0000000000000000000000000 nibbles to house a recording of all speech in human history, even at a relatively low level of quality. For the purposes of his calculations, Liberman estimated the total duration of such a project to include 416,390,367 years of continuous audio.
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