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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 15:59:01 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Samarth Moray wrote:
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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.
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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 Beast).
For all practical purposes -- and probably any impractical purpose -- that’s
unlimited.
-Ted
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 | | Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts)
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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