[geeks] OED Wins! ;^)

[Lionel Peterson]

See
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0198611862/qid=1037853234/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/103-0113971-1508678?v=glance&s=books

20 Volumes!

>From http://www.oed.com/public/inside/funfacts.htm

Second Edition (1989)
Proposed size: 20 volumes

Actual size: 20 volumes, 21,730 pages

Publication date: 1989

Weight of text: 62.6 kilos or 137.72 lbs.

Amount of ink used to print complete run: 2,830 kilos or 6,243 lbs.

Number of words in entire text: 59 million

Number of printed characters: 350 million

Size does matter...

$995 buys a lot of dead trees! (but hey, shipping is free!)



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Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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