On Thu, Jul 18, 2013, at 02:04 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote:
> I had a handful of mylar dots from a tape punch. Andy P called them
> antibits.  1/2 million lines would be a large pile of it - :)

And Mike Payson wrote:
> Like others have said, gcode files for 3d printers van get BIG.
> I export all my gcode to a single directory
>
> I checked, and the largest file there is 1,708,605 lines and
> 51,650,578 characters long.
> 

Geek that I am, I just had to do the math:

If that file was punched onto paper tape, the tape would be 81
miles long.

The pile of anti-bits would weigh about 25 lbs.

If you wound the tape onto a single spool, it would be 13
feet in diameter and weigh about 700 lbs.

"Hey Stuart, we have a new program to load into the Haas.
Bring that forklift over here!"


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  John Kasunich
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