/sci/ - Science & Math

I have to admit guys I’m a little disappointed. I imagined a form of long term storage using a tape system, where the maximum number of states would be width of tape/minimum head write size.
The math is disappointing though. A 1920 x 1080 image is about 2 million bytes uncompressed meaning any 1920x1080p image can be represented by 16 million 2 state transistors.
Now, if that information were to be represented by a 1000 state storage unit (tape), you would still need 1.6 million bytes. :( I imagined that because each byte you add can now hold 1000x more information as opposed to 2x that it would scale much faster.

It’s still some cool math. This means that there are about 2^16,000,000 possible 1920x1080p images (however the vast majority would not be indistinguishable from one another)