Onetrillionpity.txt File

The name combines the file extension for a standard plain-text document with a quantitative and emotional descriptor. In digital culture, such "impossible" files are often used to illustrate the vastness of data or to represent a symbolic repository of collective human emotion. Scale of Data A text file of this nature would be astronomically large:

To put this in perspective, the entire English-language text of Wikipedia is roughly , meaning "onetrillionpity.txt" would be over 12 times larger than all of Wikipedia's current articles. onetrillionpity.txt

would result in a file size of approximately 1 Terabyte (TB) . The name combines the file extension for a

A standard text file uses approximately 1 byte per character. A file containing "one trillion" units of text (whether characters or words) would be massive: onetrillionpity.txt