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> the most puzzling detail of Genz’s translation of Joel’s description was his claim that the di lep connected each atoll and island to all 33 others. That woul
by carlob 11y ago
> the most puzzling detail of Genz’s translation of Joel’s description was his claim that the di lep connected each atoll and island to all 33 others. That would yield a trillion trillion paths, far too many for even the most adept wave pilot to memorize.
I don't follow the math if there are 34 atolls, wouldn't there be just 527 paths between them?
- zachrose 11y agoI count 561. If you want the number of unique trips that visit each island once, thats 34!, or 2.95e38. If you want the number of edges in a complete undirected graph, that's (34*(34-1))/2, or 561. Maybe when you account for currents the route from one atoll to another might be different than the same trip in reverse. If so there could be 1122 paths.