Monday, July 10, 2006

Yummy Bytes

So my friend Josh claimed that he was able to stuff his pizza into a floppy drive and email some to me.
I didn't get any of his pizza. He made me cry.

However, it was inspiration for a rather interesting question for my geeky friends, and I decided the results were postworthy.

QUESTION:
If you could take a pizza* and convert it into a file on your computer, how much space would you say it takes up?

*standard size (medium/large) cheese pizza, with exception of Cameron's answer

ANSWERS:
Josh: I'm not sure, hopefully its less than 10 MB

Eric: I'm gonna go with 16Mb

Justin: well, i would have to say maybe 3.75 GB. but the important part is that it is an exe file, and when it gets run, it eats up 80% of my RAM... pizza occupies all or my mental functions when i eat it

Robert: a platter... drive platters keep getting bigger... so i'd guess well around 120GB or bigger... it depends on what drive

Tom: i'd say around 8 gigs... a movie is around a gig, and if you take a dvd box you can place 8 of em and make sort of a pizza... but realistically, terrabytes of space if you were transferring matter. gigaquads truthfully

Jeremy (friend of Josh): you mean like all the molecular and temperature data stored in binary format?

Camron Sable (friend of Josh): Hmmm... Pineapple's pretty heavy... I'd say e-mailing a slice of hawaiian pizza'd be a few megabites, 4ish maybe

Ryan: terrabytes. lots and lots of terrabytes... like, 60 tiB

RESULTS:
Quite the spectrum of answers, from only a few megabytes to terrabytes. Either way, that's alot of bytes.

If any of you readers have another theory, I'd be happy to hear it.

*UPDATE*
Luan: 6 mb?

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