Re: [Foundation-l] Bertelsmann publishes "Wikipedia Encyclopedia in One Volume"

2008/4/26 Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd(a)yahoo.com>om>:   In its entirety?   From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Size_of_English_Wikipedia_in_August_2007…   :   "Using volumes 25cm high and 5cm thick (some 400 pages), each page   having two columns, each columns having 80 rows, and each row having   50 characters, ≈ 6MB per volume. As English Wikipedia has around 7.5GB   of text (August 2007, length of wikitext counted by myself) ≈ 1250   volumes. Note that this is a conservative estimate, as it doesn't   include images, tables etc. which take up more surface than the text   which describes them."   Using pages with dimensions described here; 400 pages x 1250 volumes =   500 000 pages of text in August 2007.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_in_volumes uses another   method to calculate size in volumes, using a live measure of size, and   arrives at "equivalen[ce] to 766 volumes of the Encyclopædia   Britannica". 500 x 766 = 383 000   Britannica-sized leaves. Again, this seems to ignore images, tables, &c.