"I don't know what this means."

https://arbital.com/p/8nq

by Eli Tyre Sep 17 2017


Let's say that you want to store a lot of data, and digit wheels cost \$1\. At that price, an object that can store 3 different values costs about 48¢, whereas an object that stores 4 different values costs about 60¢\. What storage medium, then, costs exactly 50¢? I can think of two:

I don't know what this means.


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Eli Tyre

Never mind. I got it.

I was put off by thinking that the "$1" in that sentence was "1¢".