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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by perishthethought@lemm.ee to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
 

Fun fact I found in a game...

Chip Defense (A tower defense game with a microprocessor theme)

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.chadenas.cpudefense/

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[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Let's say that we have a more recent micro SD card of 1 TB. So to contain the same information in a punch card (with a byte density of 80 byte/156 cm² = 0.512 byte/cm²), we would need a card of 512,820,512,820 cm². If I'm not mistaken that would be a punch card the size of 51 km²!! This is wild :O

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

For the Americans, this is more than one football field and less than Texas

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

For the entomologists, this is approximately 2.6 trillion ants

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How many peach trees could you plant on 51km^2^

[–] abclop99@beehaw.org 4 points 5 months ago