User:Tompw/bookshelf

6423 volumes 32 stacks

Note: To provide up-to-date information, the number of all Wikipedia articles has to be updated manually.

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Assumptions

Encyclopædia Britannica: two rows of volumes in shelves

Inspiration

• This shows 5,948 M words across 13.7 M articles (for Nov 2009), implying 434 words per article..
• Same source shows 53 GB across 5,948 M words, implying 8.9B/word. ASCII uses 1B/character which inturn implies 8.9 characters/word. However, this includes wikimarkup, and 5 char/word plus one for space is standard, 6 characters/word will be assumed.
• There are 19729900 articles, which means &000000001053178500000010,531,785 words, which means &000005137665960000000051,376,659,600 characters.
• One volume: 25cm high, 5cm thick. 500 leaves, 2 pagefaces per leaf, two columns per pageface, 80 rows/column, 50 characters per row. So one volume = &00000000080000000000008,000,000 characters, or &00000000013333330000001,333,333 words, or &00000000000030721999993,072.2 articles.
• Transclusion pages used:
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  • User:Tompw/bookshelf/row20e
  • User:Tompw/bookshelf/stack200
  • User:Tompw/bookshelf/stack200v

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