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[-] lqdrchrd 268 points 10 months ago

Size of an uncompressed image of the Washington Crossing the Delaware painting = 1 Yankee

12 Yankees in a Doodle

60 Doodles in an Ounce (entirely unrelated to the volume or weight usage of ounce)

[-] walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 78 points 10 months ago
[-] moody@lemmings.world 40 points 10 months ago

That's too straightforward. It should be 113 Doodles in a Dandy. And 73 Dandies in a Macaroni.

[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 7 points 10 months ago

How many Macaronis in a Handy though? I'd say 1776.

.... I'll see myself out.

[-] Kindness@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

4 Macaronis in a bit of an ounce.

8 Macaronis in a full ounce.

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Maybe its the number of men in the boat number of dandies in a macaroni

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 38 points 10 months ago

Make sure to make the specific term "Computer Ounce", or co. oz.

[-] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 10 points 10 months ago

Better yet, just use "cooz" as the "common unit"

Then it's proportioned following fluid ounce measurements from there. e.g. "coc" (computer cup) is 16 coozes.

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Ayyy, I'm in COLORADO so this would be great.

[-] pound_heap@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

I second this. It makes total sense - computer memory is a volume to be filled with data. They ain't call parts of a hard drive volumes for nothing.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sampled at what resolution, though? It's a physical painting and the true, atomic-scale resolution would make this whole system useless.

May I suggest the entire constitution in ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) instead? Bonus points if any future amendments change the whole system.

Edit: I suppose you actually want to start small. Maybe just the declaration sans-signatures, then. So, 6610*7 = 46,270 bits.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 points 10 months ago

Congrats, in my almost year on Lemmy, this is the best comment I've seen!

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