That doesn’t work anyway, since based on wheat variety, growing season, and grinding method, different flours have different information density.
They have an international prototype sack of flour in an old missile silo in Kansas. Ultimately that’s what all the measurements are relative to
Computational biochemists are working with a crack team of mathematicians as we speak to develop an alternative standard which does not need a reference mass
I like to read bedtime stories to my wheat, so it learns more and has higher information density
I just plug mine into USB ports
Sounds like the culinary world would benefit from having a measurement system that accounts for these factors.
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Wouldn’t this make the units temperature-dependent?
Landauer limit is one kTln2 per bit of information, so at 300K about 3 zeptojoule per bit.
Dividing by c² we get 32 micro-quectogram per bit, so 32 yoctogram per terabit. 256 yoctogram per terabyte.
The Author wants half a septillion terabytes, 0.5•10²⁴ terabytes, half a yotta-terabyte.
That makes 128 grams.Since I don’t know what on earth “a cup of flour” is, I can’t judge if the comic character proposes a reasonable conversion, but 0.1kg seems like a reasonable amount to use in cooking.
For baking I would rather have my units temperature dependent than density dependent (I can compact my flour or work with water or nuts, all having different densities, but my room temperature will always be roughly 300).
I endorse einstein-landauer units.The real problem is measuring flour by volume instead of mass.
Solve both by measuring with moles
are other burrowing animals also ok?
If you don’t have a mole at home, you can substitute with a gopher.
You can fit two moles in a liter, but a gopher is too big
What about lemmings :-)
Made even worse by mixing cups, spoons, pints, gallons and their crazy ratios
Oh sure, throw a fit — just wait until you want to convert those units to kilojoules!
Who’s laughing now, tablespoons?!
Information is physical? I’m gonna need a source on that one.
Entropy in information theory is equivalent to entropy in quantum dynamics / thermodynamics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer's_principle
Also see Redjard’s comment to this post
Hundred sextillion terabytes. Yeah, everybody of calling it hungry sex bites in minutes.
I have absolutely no understanding of whatever is said here
Metric appears to end at 10^30, but even then, I think the better way to phrase that number would be 5,000 quetta-bytes
Tera = 10^12;
SeptillionSextillion = 10^21
Source*500 000 quettabytes
*Sextillion = 10^21 ( = Zetta)I’d recommend wikipedia here, your source seems to have taken 3 years to update their table and their image is still outdated.
They likely didn’t use quetta because it was only added 3 years ago, and is still not widely known. Or maybe it sounded better.
Derp, that’s what happens when you have to bounce between too many pages on mobile.
Thanks for the pointer!
This kind of humor is what’s wrong with modern males.
