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Infographic shows how many lines of code are in iPhone games and mouse DNA

Infographics are cool – we all know that. They help us visualise information in relation to other, similar bits of information, especially when it comes to big numbers. Numbers like ten thousand and 10-million are very far apart in the real world, but they can live on the same page in an infographic that shows how many lines of computer code are in a simple iPhone game (around 10 000), and how many lines of computer code are in popular accounting software package Intuit.

Computer code is not just used for software, though. Yes, the majority of the items in this infographic from Information Is Beautiful do depict various bits of computer software – from those used by computer viruses to the flight systems for an F-35 fighter jet – but genetic material can also be represented as lines of code. Back in 2003, when the human genome was first sequenced, we learned that one cell of human genetic material takes up 3-billion lines of code. While that’s not represented in the chart here (it would be way, way higher than the other things shown), a mouse is depicted. Right next to the software in modern cars, and the US government’s healthcare website.

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