Waldo JaquithNov 21, 2023
In “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish,” Douglas Adams wrote that the Hitchhikers’s Guide to the Galaxy is 5,973,509 pages long. English-language Wikipedia currently contains 6,747,777 entries. That means that the size of Wikipedia has now surpassed the size of the Hitchhikers’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Show threadGaborNov 22, 2023

@waldoj a fun thing I occasionally ponder is that "page" does not mean a page on paper, like in a book, or even an A4 page.

It's a distinct entry. Or at least I hope that's what "page" means here, in the web sense.

Show threadWaldo JaquithNov 22, 2023
@javorszky I was left wondering what DNA meant when he used the word in that description.
Show threadGabor
@waldoj yeah, you're right, what do words even mean, I mean it's not like some words have different meanings depending on context? Everyone always knows the exact meaning of all words all the time. Language is truly amazing
Nov 22, 2023 at 4:53pmWeb