Tuesday, November 25, 2008

New Scientist

I'm a subscriber to New Scientist (a UK science magazine) and have been for many years. Last night I got bored and sent a question to "Last Word" which is, unsurprisingly, the last bit of the magazine where people ask sort-of scientific questions, leaving it open to anybody to offer an answer.

So I sent the question: "How many megabytes do you think the approx 100mm cubed of material removed from my brain during the biopsy represents?"

And then I wondered - could it be terabytes or petabytes - or, as work colleagues suggested, just bytes?

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