2007-07-20 08:42:41 · 6 answers · asked by Paul A 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
You have to consider a few things first:
- What size font will you use?
- Many web pages are dynamic; that is, they are automatically generated based on user input, which makes the number of possible pages staggeringly high.
Consider a Google search page. Will you print out the page containing search results for every word in every language (and every combination of words)?!
2007-07-20 08:46:38 · answer #1 · answered by tastywheat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question said "right now 3:41 PM" which would mean that there would be a very definite amount of pages. Even though some web pages are infinite in their configuration and therefore their size, only a finite number of web pages can be displayed at any given time. I believe that at 3:41 PM there was a clearly defined amount of web space to be laid out.
It may be easier to describe the size in square miles rather than lineal miles. If you have seen paper from around the globe it comes in various sizes not just 8 1/2" x 11". There are metric sizes that approximate the standard letter size but are a bit different (wider and shorter). Japanese paper is different as well.
As a convention we should also limit font sizes and types of those used in the most popular newspapers of the native language the web page is written in. In this way we can be sure that the type is legible without being too small (legalese excepted) or too big (titles and headlines excepted).
The final calculation:
(25,387,187x2.3
+2,587,548x3.1
+35,847,358x2.24
+134,157,358x4.12
+3,587,354x2.4
+1,247,148x3.11
+115x2.3)/27,880,000
=25.5353970645624 square miles.
2007-07-23 23:42:10 · answer #2 · answered by threelegmarmot 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's really no limit, since many pages, including nearly all the pages on this site, are dynamic.
2007-07-21 00:20:24 · answer #3 · answered by Frank N 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
189,333 miles
I recently heard there were 100,000,000 websites so I multipled by 10 pages per site and divided by 5280 feet/mile assuming each page to be about a foot long.
2007-07-20 20:35:41 · answer #4 · answered by andyg77 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Serious;y, you do not have to consider anything, if you lay them all out, there will probably be a new type of measure, or a new number like "gigillion, or gazillion"
2007-07-20 15:54:31 · answer #5 · answered by bioboy511 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WAY too many miles to count!!!
2007-07-21 00:18:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋