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Chramir t1_j64xwtj wrote

They made a estimate of how many words are there in every youtube video uploaded. That estimate is calculated by the total runtime of all the videos multiplied by average word count in a conversation per given time. And the total words are devided by the number of words in a average book. To get a 'books size'.

I don't know, but that just seems kinda iffy. First youtube videos are rarely a back and forth conversation. And secondly it's like pointing to a skyscraper and saying it's like a big sandcastle because sand is used in concrete.

Edit: grammar and added the 'word count' estimate explanation.

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tomiwa1a t1_j6bb8e8 wrote

Exactly! This is how it works.

I agree it's not perfect, but remember, Youtube itself is not a library so any comparisons to real libraries will require some degree of approximation. You can think of it as an approximate estimate or my preferred term, a Fermi Estimate.

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