On 19/02/14 12:08, Francisco Olarte wrote: > Hi: > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy > <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote: >>> I do not know how long is the bible >> ~ 4.3MBytes. >>> or where to grab it, >> http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10/pg10.txt >> (I got this idea of using the Bible for file tests from Kernighan: >> http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/interps/pap.html) > > Thanks. I've seen it before, ( using the bible ) but didn't knew which > one. I'll just do some tests with 20*bible, to compare. The Hindu Mahabharata takes ~15MB in English .txt form: http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/maha/ I think it's the longest single work of literature (there are bigger reference works, like the Yongle Dadian) Scott