how wide would an LP be of every word ever spoken?

[curwin]

@Banksiaman

The OP asked for ‘every word ever spoken by a human’, and you could interpret that both ways [Every Word Once, or All Words by All Humans]. However, some of us spelled out the quantity implied by the All words-All humans version, which he seemed to be very comfortable with.

Curwin might help here by chiming in and clarifying this before we get too much more wacky mathematical minimalism.

I meant all words spoken by all humans over all time. Sorry it wasn’t more clear.

I thought it was understandable from my last sentence:

“To figure this out, we need to estimate how much the average person speaks in a day/year, how long the average person lives, and how many “average” people have lived in history.”