3900 characters per page – let’s get a little perspective!

Imagine a book with just 34 trillion verified numbers of pi(π). Using 3900 characters per page, this version of her book would be over 8 billion pages. That number has now exceeded 100 trillion.

** How many characters on an 8.5×11 inch page?
First, how many characters across?
Can we agree on 75?
How many lines down?
Can we agree on 52?
That would give us about 3900 characters per page.

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0
1
2
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5
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8
9
0
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3
4
5
(just 16 down)
…  and so on. Yes, about 75 characters across and 52 characters down or 3900 characters per page out of 31,415,926,535,897 (31415926535897) is a book of about 8,055,365,778 or just over 8 billion pages.