Limits
The limits of data storage depend on the technology to write and read such data. For example, an 8"x10" 300dpi 8-bit greyscale image map contains 7.2 megabytes of data—assuming a scanner can accurately reproduce the printed image to that resolution and color depth, and a program can accurately interpret such an image. A similarly sized image in 2400dpi 24-bit true color theoretically contains 1.38 gigabytes of information.
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Famous quotes containing the word limits:
“Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don’t happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data ... and yet we don’t understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)
“As nature requires whirlwinds and cyclones to release its excessive force in a violent revolt against its own existence, so the spirit requires a demonic human being from time to time whose excessive strength rebels against the community of thought and the monotony of morality ... only by looking at those beyond its limits does humanity come to know its own utmost limits.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)