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Question
I see that Google Gemini 3 has a 1 million token context window. How much is that in non-techie terms?
~ Anonymous
Answer
Hello,
Yeah, I feel like there’s a sharknado of terms these days for people who don’t hang out in tech circles. (Are you questioning my “sharknado”? Tsunami seemed overused…)
Hopefully you are a book reader (or that book references will help you make sense of tokens…) If so, here are some book comparisons for 1 million tokens:
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- Harry Potter Series - 7 books - About 70% would fit
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and the Hobbit - 100% would fit with space left over
- War and Peace - 100% would fit with space left over
- Les Miserables - 100% would fit with space left over
- King James Bible - Old and New Testaments - 100% would fit
- This is probably the closest to 1 million of everything on the list
- This is probably the closest to 1 million of everything on the list
If books didn’t help, then hopefully one of these will land:
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- Roughly 750,000 words
- About 1500 pages
- If you read at average speed, it would take about 50 hours of non-stop reading
- If you type 40 words per minute - 8 hours per day, 5 days per week, it would take 2 months of typing
TL:DR - A lot
And if it isn’t enough, you can just start a new chat and get a new 1 million…
Hope that helps
~ Damien
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