• YodaDaCoda@aussie.zone
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    9 months ago

    I like this because the amount of bits in a stack can vary depending on whose foot you use to measure, or the thickness of the card stock.

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      9 months ago

      IBM standard cards are one 48th of a barleycorn thick. I believe IBM measured from the 1932 Iowa Reference Barleycorn, now kept in the vault inside Mt Rushmore.