You can also add to the fortune is that there are "approximately" 10^24 grains of sands on the earth. If every one could store a permutation, you are still way short of the storage that you would need.
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Stefan Grosse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> To an adequate approximation there are 10^158 of them. >> Simply to obtain them all (at a rate of 10^10 per second, which is >> faster than the CPU frequency of most desktop computers) would take >> 10^148 seconds, or slightly longer than 3*(10^140) years. >> >> Current estimates of the age of the Universe are of the order of >> 1.5*(10^10) years, so the Universe will have to last about 2*(10^130) >> times as long as it has already existed, before the task could >> be finished. >> >> So: why do you want to do this? >> >> > > I want to nominate this as a fortune. How to do it? > > ;-) > > Stefan > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
