D Drive

[Night]

So after talking to Jae for a while about, stuff... I was curious as to how many D's a .txt file could hold. So we both got onto copying D's as many times as possible. We both maxed out our Ram doing this. My D.txt file is 1.16GB, Jaes file was 1.42GB.

Just thought it was interesting and pretty funny to see how notepad handles this amount of text. Currently Notepad in the Processes its at 4,914,612K, Steam is pulling 133,588K while downloading a game just as a refrence.

 

[joelthezombie15]

I wonder what 1's would be like.

[JaeDee884]

I maxed out ram usage at 9gb of 16GB

The file is not openable. I closed it to try open it, and it just crashes completely.
I propose a competition! who can make the largest D drive text document wins +1 interwebs!

[Night]

I tried to open mine in Notepad++ aswell as in Notepad and its too big, at 1.17GB, I increased it a little bit.

[JaeDee884]

I maxed at 12 Trillion D's (assuming one letter is one bit)
and night got to 16 trillion and still going.

[Night]

I cant make the file any bigger. Ive run out of memory. Im so close to a 2GB file ^___^ 

Lol, 1.99GB "2,147,476,665 bytes"

Edit:
 

I closed some things and added some more smaller lines. Size on disk is "2.00 GB (2,147,483,648 bytes)"
Size on file is "1.99 GB (2,147,483,630 bytes)"

Then I just cant add anymore. So close!!!

[Samskip]

Got to 1.53GB but any bigger my ram usage would be 7.95GB out of 8GB and notepad would crash.

[bradscoolio]

Buy more memory for this project ^__^

[Night]

Lol, This should be a stress test. Or a LTT Forum thing. How large a .txt file can you make of D's?

[JaeDee884]

i"m thinking of upgrading to 32gb just to make a bigger text file

All this started over a sarcastic joke about sending a girl a D drive. xD

[zeiferlance]

wow! i'll make sure to try this at home.  :D

[WhatARoaster]

I maxed at 12 Trillion D's (assuming one letter is one bit)bi

and night got to 16 trillion and still going.

 

What kind of assumption is that? how the hell are you going to represent more that one character if you're using only one bit to store them.

Assume it's an ACSII character, 7 or 8 bits.

OR

Assume it's a Unicode character, 16 bits.

[JaeDee884]

What kind of assumption is that? how the hell are you going to represent more that one character if you're using only one bit to store them.

Assume it's an ACSII character, 7 or 8 bits.

OR

Assume it's a Unicode character, 16 bits.

will redo the maths then. as i don't really know how big the letter D is lol

[colonel_mortis]

You could write a very basic computer program which will simply write D to the end of a text file until it fails, but I think you could only make a file with a mac size of half your available RAM because it needs the buffer to write too and to actually open the physical file. No program could open it though.

[mr-nipples]

I maxed at 12 Trillion D's (assuming one letter is one bit)

and night got to 16 trillion and still going.

 

One letter would be 1 byte! If it were one bit you would have only two possible outcomes 1 or 0 which doesnt cover all 128 possible ASCII characters :)

 

I wonder what 1's would be like.

In theory it would take up as much space as any other letter :D