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Re: Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts)
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:09:26 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Samarth Moray wrote:
> 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 sense of:
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> Each lego brick has a limited number of uses. A *very* small example of this
> would be two 1 x 1 bricks, can only be connected together in one way, or two if
> theyre of a different colour. (a red on top of a blue, or blue on a red)
> Obviously, the possibilites for each individual brick increase, a 1 x 2 - 1 x 4
> bracket has A LOT more possibilites than a 1 x 1. The point I'm getting at here
> is that it should be possible to hence calculate the exact number of
> possibilites that YOUR collection is capable of achieving. For example, if you
> had a hundered various pieces, the things you could do with them would be the
> sum of all possibilites each one has in relation to the others. (this is
> counting the various SNOT, AZMEP, and whatever else included). Now this is still
> a very small number, I'd expect the average 5-digit collection to generate a
> 10000000000(?) digit possibility, or even more.
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> Some thoughts/comments from the Mathematicians out there?
>
> Samarth
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 standard 2x4 pieces. According to LUGNET, I have 80,000+ pieces. I'm
not one that was good at mathematics... but that seems like an extraordinary
large number to me.
Dave K
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