Weird fascination with combinatorics? I have read that Newton’s notebooks contain pages where he has calculated logarithms out to dozens, if not hundreds of digits for no apparent reason. I’m thinking that Newton just had sort of a ramjet style brain that just had to be operating continuously at high intensity to be in its normal operating mode.
Things that I will do for the sake of an arguably-cute eulogy:
Write a Perl script that generates permutations of a given set of characters.Estimate the volume taken up by 5.5 million sheets of paper.Adopt a vaguely reporter-like writing tone.
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Weird fascination with combinatorics? I have read that Newton’s notebooks contain pages where he has calculated logarithms out to dozens, if not hundreds of digits for no apparent reason. I’m thinking that Newton just had sort of a ramjet style brain that just had to be operating continuously at high intensity to be in its normal operating mode.
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The Nine Billion Names of God, perhaps?
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The text of Clarke’s “Nine Billion Names of God” for those who may have never read this gem of a short.
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Thanks for that.
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The number 9 billion. :::sigh::: I am so very uncool.
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What lovely timing.
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Hey, don’t look at me.
Things that I will do for the sake of an arguably-cute eulogy:
Write a Perl script that generates permutations of a given set of characters.Estimate the volume taken up by 5.5 million sheets of paper.Adopt a vaguely reporter-like writing tone.
Things I will not do:
Engineer an incomprehensibly-devastating stellar event 3.7×109 years before I was born.
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