*3.984375 ..........terabytes* Why the brain amazes me. Testing
out possibilities of my old Microsoft Excel 2000 to see if the
tool I've been looking for has been sitting in front of me the
whole time - the one I'm expert at. Check this out:
65536 rows
256 columns
1024 characters can be displayed in a cell addressable using
=mid
255 addressable characters (using the =char
4,380,866,641,920 directly addressable using formulas.
4,380,866,641,920..........bytes
4,278,190,080..........kilobytes
4,177,920..........megabytes
4,080..........gigabytes
3.984375...terabytes
In a SINGLE old Excel Sheet.
(given enough memory/diskspace)
This that's awesome, check out this thought experiment:and
remember:
this is just a single sheet.
in a single workbook.
in a single directory.
on a single hard drive
on a single computer
on a single LAN
on the internet
Multiple sheets
Multiple workbooks
Multiple Directories
Multiple Hard Drives
Multiple Computers
Multiple LANS
Multiples of all of these on the Internet.
Are all easily addressable from a single formula on an Excel
Spreadsheet.
AND.. I did not include:
56 colors
4000 cell cyles
or VBA (visual basic for applications)
which can directly address those dimensions as well.
or the real total of 32767 characters per cell.
Nor did I use Unicode
or further variations accessable via VBA such as
255 width for column or
409 points high for rows
All easily accessible dimensions through VBA. You can pin point
any cell.
And... THAT'S JUST LOCATING A byte of information.
and to top it off:
I didn't go into this:
How can you compare the relationship between one byte and
another?
geographically? higher than, lower than, to the left, to the
right, nearer, further away (3d), earlier/later (if you use one
of these dimensions as TIME).
What about the way that THREE bytes relate to one another?
What about how one group relates to another?
This row compares to that row?
Or answering questions like, ''How many places can you find the
word ''Ken'' in this? Or variations of Ken:
''Ken/ken/kEn/keN/KEn/KeN/KEN/Enk/enk/eNk/enK/ENk/EnK/ENK/Nek/nek...
oh I'm tired of doing that by hand...''
And for all the other things I didn't include... I just wanted
to show: that... given enough memory or space or processing
power, you do anything you want on a computer.
