How long is my data?

Yes, you read that right. How long.

Programmers measure data in bits and bytes, but if you work in a library you know there are better units. We measure things by length – as in, how long are the shelves you need to store something.

If you wrote all your data to a series of 3½″ floppy disks, how many shelves would you need?

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