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Gmail’s Infinity+1 无限容量？

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哎。。。大把大把的Gmail 邀请。 需要的就请留下Email地址吧。 当初还琢磨着怎么获得gmail邀请呢。

今天去Gmail看到一种很有趣的东西 “A Google approach to math”，就是Gmail邮箱的空间trong>1796.896768 随着时间一点一点的增加。 经简单计算，大概每秒增加10KB.

那么一年后，Gmail邮箱的存储量大约就是 365 * 24 * 3600 * 10 / 1024 = 307968.75 MB, 由307968.75 MB/ 1024 算出一年后的存储量将超过 300 GB !!!　真是吓死人了！

不知道其他的服务商是否会跟进。如果没有Google的Gmail, MSN & Yahoo 是很难会提高免费用户的存储空间的．

参考：意外申请Gmail on June 13, 2004

A Google approach to math.

On the eve of Gmail’s one-year birthday, our engineers were toiling away furiously. Notes scribbled all over the walls. Complex calculations on napkins and empty pizza boxes. Millions of M&Ms.

The result?… starting today, we’re beginning the roll-out of our new and top secret Infinity+1 storage plan. The key features are:

* Write, don’t worry.
You want to stop caring about storage. We want to keep giving you more. Today, and beyond.

* The gift that keeps on giving.
1796.896768 megabytes of storage (and counting) for every user.

* No complicated equations. No tough algorithms.
Just this one graph:

Gmail turns 1 today. And we’ve always loved a good joke. We know we won’t reach infinity, but check out what we will do …