Re: Rate

Allen Thomson (thomsona@dzn.com)
Sat, 22 Aug 1998 12:48:08 -0600

Phillip Clark said:

>On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Allen Thomson wrote:
>> I.E.,  about one observation a second on a global average.  IIRC, there
are
>> about  150 - 200 MB of new elements per year

>The monthly files which I generate using all of the unclassified element
>sets made available by Goddard come to ~550 Mb a year.

Oops -- I was probably thinking of the compressed size. So at ~140
uncompressed bytes per  elset, that's 4 million a year, about one every
eight seconds, > 10,000 a day.