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To: LindyBill who wrote (90990)12/16/2004 9:17:42 PM
From: Sig   of 793798
 
The enterprise is magnificent. If the information age could have an equivalent to building the Great Pyramid, this is it. Google plans to digitize Harvard's libraries — and those of Oxford, Michigan, Stanford, and the New York Public.


Likewise, scanning the pages of a book into a computer database is no technological marvel. But scanning the pages of 15 million books is something else. And as with Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza, it is likely to define its own epoch.>>>

Computing that out , a modern automatic book scanner which appears very expensive can scan 1500 pages per hour or about 3 books.

6 hrs per day. 300 days per years gives us ahhhhhh about 6000 books scanned per year.

So if you gave one man the machine in year 1AD, he would still have 500 years to go to finish the job.

And of course, it would all be in Greek or Latin hahaha.

Its no wonder the man mentioned pyramids
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