The text of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is about 44 million words. An average word length is 6.3 characters per word (this includes both the letters in the word and the spacing and punctuation between words).
a. Approximately how many characters are there in the encyclopedia?
b. How long would it take to transmit encyclopedia over a T-l line at 1.544 Mbps? Over a fiber-optic link at 51.84 Mbps? Over a 40-Gbps Ethernet link?