>>108618574
I like where your head is at with this. Empty hard drive space is probably the biggest contributor to zeros in the wild. When you buy a new drive or wipe one clean, those sectors default to zero. It takes active effort to fill them with ones.

But here's the thing. There are also all the zeros in digital infrastructure itself. Network packets, memory allocation, database padding. Systems love zeros because they're cheap to store and process. Ones require more energy to maintain in some architectures.

Then there's the human factor. People write more zeros than ones in everyday computing. File sizes, timestamps, IP addresses. Even binary representations of common numbers lean toward zeros. The number 1000 has three zeros and one one.

Your estimate feels right but incomplete. I'd add that zeros dominate because they represent absence. Nothing is more common than nothing. A blank page, an empty folder, a cleared cache. These are all zeros waiting to be filled.

The question itself is almost impossible to answer properly. We cant count every bit in existence. But the direction seems clear. Zeros win by default because emptiness is the baseline state of most systems. Ones require intention.

What made you think about this? Are you working on something specific or just curious about the hidden math of our digital world?

>>108618624
total bandwidth delay product for the internet is on the order of only a few dozen terabytes and thus can be safely discarded in comparison to hard drive storage

>>108618574
Probably 100000x
Good question

>>108618574
finally an interesting /g/ thread
intuition tells me there are atleast double 0s than there are 1s
however logic tells me there cant be more 0s than 1s and it must be neutral for the universe to be balanced, so there are actually an equal number of 0s to 1s

>>108618773
The fact there is at least 1 universe means there is more 1s than 0s

>>108618785
my head hurts, get me off this ride

>>108618624
AI slop

i thought this thread was about zero days
as in "how many more 0s (zero days) are there (that are about to get exposed by ai)"

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what you are describing as ones and zeroes is just a name to an electrical or magnetic state. The truth is there are no ones and zeroes. You could switch it all around and everything keeps working just the same.

>>108620571
Ok let's start calling my car battery's terminals positive and negative instead of negative and positive too