 | | Re: Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts) —David Eaton
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts) —Ray Sanders
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| | | | | (...) The 2004 LEGO Company Profile white-paper says "Over the years, enough LEGO bricks have been manufactured to give an average of 52 each to every single one of the world's 6 billion inhabitants." Another place indicates "Annual production is (...) (20 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts) —Samarth Moray
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| | | | | (...) Hi David, Thats why I said something more finite, like our collections would be easier/possible to calculate. (...) All that fancy math........ (...) I shouldve x-posted there in the beginning. Thanks, Samarth (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts) —David Eaton
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| | | | (...) Ok, so it's asymptotic, not logarithmic, and it approaches 4, so 4 was a perfectly cromulent guess. However. Since the sum of any line N of Pascal's triangle is apparently 2^N (starting at row 0), and you'd theoretically count EVERYTHING (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Googolplex (was: Is lego *truly* unlimited?) —Ross Crawford
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| | | | (...) I found the following amusing description of how to visualise a googolplex: "...if one put this black hole into a hypothetical rigid nonpermeable box, a few million light years in size, and looked at the contents once a year, it would look (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Googolplex (was: Is lego *truly* unlimited?) —David Eaton
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| | | | (...) build' question, given that it only obtains a googolplex by measuring the number of "distinct" states by a wholly ridiculous number of particles. And try as I might, I can't get the number of Lego configurations to get much beyond (...) (20 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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