[AccessD] A Question of Timing

On 4 Jan 2007 at 15:59, Heenan, Lambert wrote:

> "All of Shakespeare's plays requires less than 250K ANSI text or 0.5 meg"
> 
> I don't think so. Assuming an average of 6 letters per word (quite a low
> average) that would be about 42,000 words. That's just a little more than
> 'Hamlet' alone, never mind the whole of Willie's output.  
> 
> There are 37 plays and the 5 longest and 5 shortest add up to about 240,000
> *words*. See http://www.shaksper.net/archives/1994/0714.html
> 
> I think you meant something more like 250 Meg.

You're both way out. The answer lies somewhere in the middle :-)

Project Gutenberg's Etext 
"The Complete Works of William Shakespeare 
January, 1994  [Etext #100]" - "SHAKS12.TXT"
is 5.32MB

-- 
Stuart