[R] Help With Permutations

Stefan Grosse singularitaet at gmx.net
Mon Nov 24 18:01:25 CET 2008


> 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



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