The text of the Encyclopedia Britannica is about 44 million words. For a sample of about 2000 words, the average word length was 6.1 characters per word.
a) Approximately how many characters are there in the encyclopedia?
b) How long would it take to transmit the text over a T-1 line at 1.544Mbps?
c) How long would it take to transmit the text over a fiber optic link at 2.488Gbps?
d) Could the text fit on a 600 -MB CD?