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(...) From Hitchhiker's guide: "Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?" "I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, 1st off, there's probably on the order of several hundred billion pieces on the planet. I remember reading in some FAQ the estimated number of pieces in the world, but I can't seem to find it at the moment. I know they make about 20 (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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SNIPPY (...) Hi All, This is exactly the answer I was looking for. Thanks, Olof! Now to the others, (I'll write one reply, cause it's easier when youre not a member :-l) although you could combine 2 1 x 1 bricks in infinite number of ways by (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) The permutations when making only right angle stud connections with less than 1000 2x4s far exceeds the number of atoms in the universe or nanoseconds in the age of the universe (heck, probabably ALL the universes in Heinlen's Number of the (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I'd say there are 1024, you probably left out the empty MOC :-) Jürgen (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I received a little LEGO brochure years ago that said something like 8 standard 2x4 bricks can be joined together (standard LEGO building techiques--not these 'rotate on a stud, therefore infinite) over a million different ways. That's 8 (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) ... (...) Two 1x1 bricks can be connected together in an infinite number of ways. The top brick can be rotated freely to any angle and still connect, and the angles are countless. Given a 10 piece collection of different parts, the number of (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hello. Very interesting question. Just the selection of pieces from a collection generates a very large amount of possibilities; Selecting 10 pieces from a collection of 100 (different) pieces generates 100!/(90!*10!)=100*9...0309456440 (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Ahh, but that isn't true -- rotate one of the pieces. There are, in fact, an infinite number of ways to connect those two 1 x 1 bricks. (Of course, you probably can't tell the difference between two 1x1 bricks connected at 22 degrees and (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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I was just wondering today about how much lego is trumpeted as having an 'unlimited' number of possibilites. Now I'm no math whiz, but it seemed logically impossible to me. So here's some food for thought for the gurus out there to digest and make (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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