Correction for the amount of a MP3 Song

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How much is 0.00000500 zettabytes?

It's about 2,000,000,000 times as much as a MP3 Song

The amount of a MP3 Song is about 0.00000000000000300 zettabytes.

(a.k.a. MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, a.k.a. MPEG-2 Audio Layer 3) (128 Kbps, "near-CD-quality"; 3 minutes duration; average)

A three-minute song of typical quality will be about 0.00000000000000300 zettabytes when encoded into MP3 format. The song Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega was used by AT&T-Bell Labs engineer Karlheinz Brandenburg to test the compression process and is considered the first MP3 song.

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