17 March 2009

My Biggest Mistake?

My new project. Will either drag me down with it or be the most intricate thing I've ever created. It's based on combinations of objects, numbers and patterns to permeate stories, I've been programming for a week already. I've just done some maths and found the possible outcomes for it (my best calculations, and bearing in mind there are 5 or maybe 6 or maybe 7 levels of interacting variating algorithms in the program (which itself has practically it's own life)) are about 10ex^56.

That's 100 Septendecillion outcomes or. 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 outcomes. So I've titled it:

100 Septendecillion Stories or 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Stories or 10ex^56 Stories.

Queneau managed 10ex^14 poems or 100,000,000,000,000 or One Hundered Thousand Billion, and it was calculated that if you could read one of the poems every 30 seconds it would take you over 10,000 years to read them all.

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