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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. hackaday by a3217055 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This was on hackaday already, you can check it out at http://www.hackaday.com/ Sorry slashdot, ain't the news site that it used to be. Maybe tomorrow will be better

  2. Re:Troll by Deekin_Scalesinger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Um...that's TP man, TP for my bunghole. Wow, what a way to shame a memory...

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  3. Re:Does that count... by ScrewMaster · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Kind of like a Tardis. It's bigger on the inside than on the outside. Of course, the Internet is a ways off from Dimensional Transcendentalism.

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