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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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Someone on the website obviously noticed the traffic increase and either pulled the pictures (possibly due to LEGO intervention) or stopped deep linking. Either way, they are gone (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2005)
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Remember it's not just what LEGO want to pursue, it is what they legally _have_ to pursue to maintain their trademarks and copyrights. The company may love for fan sites to show their logo and name prominently, but if they want to keep hold of their (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) click on any link on that site or a link to it i only get a little stop sign picture? it's really weird at least to me. ondrew (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2005)
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The Southern California LEGO Train Club had a great weekend at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum! (9 URLs) Pictures of our latest layout are now available on our club website at (URL) www.scltc.org>. Our layout included a brand new waterfront (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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(...) It's a fine line between new light grey and old light grey :) Basically, as long as you're not making it look like you're officially sponsored by Lego, it's ok. If you were selling a second-hand Lego set for instance, it's perfectly fine to (...) (21 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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I was reading a thread on lugnet.lego about someone using the word "LEGO" in their domain name. Then I went and read the rules Lego has about using their trademark names. It stated that the Lego Logo could not be used in a website. But that made me (...) (21 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Allan, It is very interesting that you have talked to people who worked at the Canadian Samsonite LEGO facility. I've often wished that I could talk to someone who worked at the USA Samsonite facility in Loveland, CO. Many of the Samsonite (...) (21 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Yes, for some reason TLG doesn't like to include the Samsonite years onto the years of Lego in the USA. They view 1973 as year one, instead of 1961. And in Canada they view 1962 as year one. That's why you have a 25th USA bucket and 35th (...) (21 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Do these help explain the difference in the anniversary buckets and tubs that were available in 1998? Ours here in Canada were to celebrate the 35th anniversary. But I think the ones in the U.S. were silver anniversary markers, is that right? (...) (21 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) One thing I forgot. Allan, you grew up with Samsonite in Canada. Well you had more time to get Samsonite sets than USA folks. Samsonite Lego was sold in the USA from 1961 to 1972. In Canada Samsonite had a longer run, since it was sold there (...) (21 years ago, 5-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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