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Ross Finlayson schrieb:

 > Plagiarist

Nope I had:

 > On 10/04/2025 03:52 PM, Mild Shock wrote:
 >>
 >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God

Whats wrong with you Rossy Boy?

Bye

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Ross Finlayson schrieb:
> On 10/04/2025 03:52 PM, Mild Shock wrote:
>>
>>
>> In a Tibetan lamasery, the monks seek to
>> list all of the names of God. They believe
>> the Universe was created for this purpose,
>> and that once this naming is completed, God
>> will bring the Universe to an end. Three
>>
>> centuries ago, the monks created an alphabet
>> in which they calculated they could encode
>> all the possible names of God, numbering
>> about 9,000,000,000 ("nine billion") and
>> each having no more than nine characters.
>>
>> riting the names out by hand, as they had
>> been doing, even after eliminating various
>> nonsense combinations, would take another
>> 15,000 years; the monks wish to use modern
>> technology to finish this task in 100 days.
>>
>> They rent a computer capable of printing all
>> the possible permutations, and hire two
>> Westerners to install and program the machine.
>> The computer operators are skeptical but
>> play along. After three months, as the job
>>
>> nears completion, they fear that the monks
>> will blame the computer (and, by extension,
>> its operators) when nothing happens. The
>> Westerners leave slightly earlier than their
>> scheduled departure without warning the monks,
>>
>> so that it will complete its final print run
>> shortly after they leave. On their way to the
>> airfield they pause on the mountain path. Under
>> a clear night sky they es timate that it must be
>> just about the time that the monks are pasting
>>
>> the final printed names into their holy books.
>> Then they notice that "overhead, without any
>> fuss, the stars were going out."
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God
> 
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> Plagiarist
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