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My calculations tell me I've typed every combination of words possible. (Original Post) LuckyCharms Jun 2019 OP
Hello? dawg day Jun 2019 #1
If there ever was an appropriate time for this gif... True Dough Jun 2019 #2
True dat! Anon-C Jun 2019 #3
Smoking is bad. LuckyCharms Jun 2019 #4
Gotcha! True Dough Jun 2019 #5
Relentless Porcupine Utopia jberryhill Jun 2019 #6
This was more coherent than the version which ended in a question mark... RockRaven Jun 2019 #7
Did you write the Library of Babel? ProudLib72 Jun 2019 #8
but but but... Leith Jun 2019 #9
Fake news! Wounded Bear Jun 2019 #10
No way! There's got to be hundreds of possible words combinations! Ron Obvious Jun 2019 #11
Just remember--there are over ten thousand chords on the guitar. panader0 Jun 2019 #12

True Dough

(17,313 posts)
5. Gotcha!
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 10:49 PM
Jun 2019

You've already broken your last post vow.

Try again, Lucky!

On second thought, don't bother. Stick around and keep us in stitches.

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RockRaven

(14,979 posts)
7. This was more coherent than the version which ended in a question mark...
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 11:03 PM
Jun 2019

Good thing you did that combo previously and saved this one for last.

Edit: Oh dear, you said words, not characters... maybe I've the one smoking something that's not right...

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
8. Did you write the Library of Babel?
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 11:12 PM
Jun 2019
Borges' narrator describes how his universe consists of an enormous expanse of adjacent hexagonal rooms, each of which contains the bare necessities for human survival—and four walls of bookshelves. Though the order and content of the books are random and apparently completely meaningless, the inhabitants believe that the books contain every possible ordering of just 25 basic characters (22 letters, the period, the comma, and space). Though the vast majority of the books in this universe are pure gibberish, the library also must contain, somewhere, every coherent book ever written, or that might ever be written, and every possible permutation or slightly erroneous version of every one of those books. The narrator notes that the library must contain all useful information, including predictions of the future, biographies of any person, and translations of every book in all languages. Conversely, for many of the texts, some language could be devised that would make it readable with any of a vast number of different contents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
 

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
11. No way! There's got to be hundreds of possible words combinations!
Thu Jun 27, 2019, 11:45 AM
Jun 2019

Maybe even thousands!

Actually, I believe I read somewhere that some significant percentage of sentences uttered (40%?) have never previously been formulated. I find that hard to believe, as most people seem to read from old scripts when conversing.

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