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Reminds me of a book I recently read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_Stay_in_Hell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_Stay_in_Hell The numbers produc
by snowwrestler 2mo ago
Reminds me of a book I recently read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_Stay_in_Hell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_Stay_in_Hell
The numbers produced by permutations are astounding! Especially compared to the (much smaller) numbers in our actual physical universe.
- somenameforme 2mo agoMy favorite one is chess games. If you managed to compress each chess game down to just a single atom, the physical size of a disk to save this data would exceed the amount of atoms in the universe. Even the number of theoretic positions (ignoring legality/possibility) is just below the number of atoms in the universe. Though it must be said that once one starts looking at permutations of things, the number of atoms in the universe seems quite small indeed. 10^80? What's that, like 7 or 8?
- notpushkin 2mo agoThe number of permutations of n distinct objects is n!. So, probably a bit more than 8, since 8! < 10⁸, but I don’t think you are terribly off :-) Edit: 58! < 10⁸⁰ < 59!