Sony & Beethoven determine length of music CD

mistermocha writes: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/12/dayintech_1216 (courtesy of google)

When Sony and Philips were negotiating a single industry standard for the audio compact disc in 1979 and 1980, the story is that one of four people (or some combination of them) insisted that a single CD be able to hold all of the Ninth Symphony.When Sony and Philips were negotiating a single industry standard for the audio compact disc in 1979 and 1980, the story is that one of four people (or some combination of them) insisted that a single CD be able to hold all of the Ninth Symphony.

An interesting inference, no doubt...