Paper Storage Claims Simply Don't Add Up
Jeremy Reimer @ ArsTechnica writes about the Indian student who has allegedly found a method of storing compressed digital information on a regular sheet of paper.
Despite technological advances in scanning and printing technology since those days, Abideen's claims quite simply do not hold water. A little bit of math is in order here. Starting with a scanner with a maximum resolution of 1,200 dots per inch, this leads to a maximum of 1,440,000 dots per square inch, or just over 134 million dots on a sheet of standard 8.5" by 11" paper...
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