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Weighing the Internet

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the damn-liars-and-statisticians dept.

the-dark-kangaroo writes "Jason Striegel has taken Physics to a new dimension by 'Weighing the Internet.' Well, actually calculating the total number of users online in one day. The conclusion that was reached was that there are ~519 million users per day online. Also, 'From what we calculated, it would appear that roughly 41 percent of internet users did not log in that day.'"

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  1. Technique by Azadre · · Score: 5, Funny

    What algorithim did they use? The one involving magic?

  2. Weight: by wot.narg · · Score: 5, Funny

    The awswer is 42 (metric gigatons total).

    Breakdown of Internet Weight:

    10 gigatons of Flames.
    20 gigatons of Spam.
    10 gigatons of e-dicks.
    2 gigatons of information.

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  3. Continues on... by XFilesFMDS1013 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jason Striegel continued by saying that "we didn't count anyone from Slashdot, because, lets face it, sitting in front of your computer all day eating Doritos tends to skew the results".