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[-] lqdrchrd 268 points 8 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 8 months ago
[-] moody@lemmings.world 40 points 8 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 8 months ago

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

.... I'll see myself out.

[-] Kindness@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

4 Macaronis in a bit of an ounce.

8 Macaronis in a full ounce.

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 38 points 8 months ago

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

[-] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 10 points 8 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 8 months ago

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

[-] pound_heap@lemm.ee 2 points 8 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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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 8 months ago

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

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