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This one has been bugging me for decades... Could have something to do with Anaximander , a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.This one has been bugging me for decades...

I recall something that I believe I heard Carl Sagan say either in an episode of Cosmos or in one of his earlier books, that one could store enough information to hold an entire encyclopedia by putting a notch in a stick, if only one could measure where the notch lies to some absurd astronomically precise figure. Am I imagining this?