Tuesday, 27 July 2008
Medieval had its own quantitative problem of abstracts and
metaphysics: the famous scholastic argue over „How many angels could
dance on the head of a pin?“. Should we know the answer, combined with
the information of total number of angels, we could easily calculate
the number of pins to accommodate all angels.
Modified into today´s world, the argument might go like: „How many server would you need to accommodate all the information (or correctly data) of this world? "