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  tmcginniss

  Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:27:09 GMT

  Is this record for A's or a's? because the title shows A's but the current record shows a's.

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  Seth Lockhart

  Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:28:08 GMT

  Agh, my computer keeps locking up around 75 million

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  Frank Krueger

  Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:22:28 GMT

  I'll keep you on your toes. I'm done filling about 300 GB worth of data. I've written my own text editor that can process the data (in a chunked fashion like emacs). BUT, it takes about 3 hours for the "character count" to come out. I'm all set, I just need a witness.

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  Morgan Jones

  Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:07:21 GMT

  I tried for 100000000000 bytes a week ago. I let a C++ application run overnight and just fill up my hard drive. It stopped a bit short because Mac OS started filling up the swap. I agree, a checksum system would be nice. But I'm still waiting on my attempt at this record.

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  Corey Henderson

  Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:23:27 GMT

  This type of record is almost 1/2 doing it and 1/2 documenting it well. It seems to me that a checksum system would work for this, i.e., you'd name the length of the file and generate a checksum, then whoever wanted to verify it would need to validate the same limit. Right now, we are limited by the OS limits, but I think that's where it could get interesting. Perhaps 18 months from now, someone out there will be compiling their own Linux kernel with 256-bit support just to beat this record.

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  Daniel Nodal

  Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:03:49 GMT

  hmm, i think your right, would it work if the record was just counting any symbol rather than just a?

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  Morgan Jones

  Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:12:18 GMT

  How do you actually prove this record if you're opening a huge document? Let's say I make a 90 GB file full of the letter A. How do I prove that the entire 90 GB is full of 'a' and not other letters? This record is only limited by hard drive space and the size of 64-bit integers for me.

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  Cameron Shurtz

  Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:50:53 GMT

  Um that dude did it in Spanish...I don't know if that should count.

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  Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:28:47 GMT

  Oh, it's on now!

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  Cameron Shurtz

  Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:05:06 GMT

  Oh but I am sure everyone appreciates you comment because without it nobody would understand this was easy or how it was done. It could be complicated to understand for someone, thanks your a true do-gooder.

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  Cameron Shurtz

  Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:02:33 GMT

  Nobody said any of these were hard to do...

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  Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:17:13 GMT

  This is relatively easy...this is gonna go one for a long time and eventually its gonna come down to who has the most time to sit and hold down the paste key.

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