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LuckyCharms

(17,413 posts)
Tue Sep 7, 2021, 11:25 AM Sep 2021

A research group at MIT has completed an analysis of everything I have

ever posted on the internet.

They have concluded that I have posted every possible combination of words in the English language.

Therefore, since I loathe repeating myself, I will now start posting only numbers. My hope is that if I am still alive in 20 years, I will have posted every possible combination of numbers by then. This is my goal.

I'll start with this one: 3455599674.

Off to a good start already.

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A research group at MIT has completed an analysis of everything I have (Original Post) LuckyCharms Sep 2021 OP
42 underpants Sep 2021 #1
I was going to start with that one, but I decided LuckyCharms Sep 2021 #2
Correct. But, can you show your work? JustABozoOnThisBus Sep 2021 #6
😆 underpants Sep 2021 #7
LC, if you are determined to head down this path, I hope you have read this article. MLAA Sep 2021 #3
It is very easy to swear using numbers. LuckyCharms Sep 2021 #9
Good one!! I mean good three!! MLAA Sep 2021 #12
as a numbers guy hfojvt Sep 2021 #4
This is EXACTLY what MIT said in their report. LuckyCharms Sep 2021 #8
Right on! You tell him/her hfojvt! MLAA Sep 2021 #13
actually I made a rather fundamental error hfojvt Sep 2021 #15
Don't you worry in 10 or 20 years no one at DU will remember it except LC! MLAA Sep 2021 #16
33. n/t Harker Sep 2021 #5
33 LuckyCharms Sep 2021 #10
... Harker Sep 2021 #11
. LuckyCharms Sep 2021 #14
23 skidoo. Harker Sep 2021 #17

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,321 posts)
6. Correct. But, can you show your work?
Tue Sep 7, 2021, 03:28 PM
Sep 2021

Hurry, there's not much time. Earth is to be demolished in favor of a galactic construction project. Plans were filed.

MLAA

(17,250 posts)
3. LC, if you are determined to head down this path, I hope you have read this article.
Tue Sep 7, 2021, 11:52 AM
Sep 2021

You will need it to adequately comment on our current condition.

https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1164&context=tme

LuckyCharms

(17,413 posts)
9. It is very easy to swear using numbers.
Tue Sep 7, 2021, 04:10 PM
Sep 2021

For example, today I told a guy to go fuck himself. 3 times.

hfojvt

(37,573 posts)
4. as a numbers guy
Tue Sep 7, 2021, 12:32 PM
Sep 2021

I can tell you it is impossible to post every combination of words in the English language. There are 525,600 minutes in a year. You are sleeping at least 1,000 of them (at less than 3 hours a day). Suppose you type 120 WPM. That gives you 62,952,000 words per year. If you are as old as me (and almost nobody lives that long), you could (at that ridiculous rate) post less than 4,961,428,135 total words.

Suppose there were 2 words in the English language. The number of possible combinations is 6
A, B, AA, AB, BA, and BB. If there are 3 words, the possible combinations is 39
A, B, C, AA, AB, AC, BA, BB, BC, CA, CB, CC, AAA, AAB, AAC, ABA, ABB, ABC, ACA, ACB, ACC, BAA, BAB, BAC, BBA, BBB, BBC, BCA, BCB, BCC, CAA, CAB, CAC, CBA, CBB, CBC, CCA, CCB, and CCC
Thus the pattern is
F(2) = 2 squared + 2
F(3) = 3 cubed + 3 squared + 3

Thus, even if there were only 11 words in the English language, there would be 314,278,685,720 possible word combinations.

hfojvt

(37,573 posts)
15. actually I made a rather fundamental error
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 03:05 AM
Sep 2021

For some reason I limited word combinations to the number of words, and logically there is no reason to limit them.

Thus even with two words, the combinations would seem to be infinite.

Not limited to A, B, AA, AB, BA, and BB. There could also be three word combinations and four word combinations, and so on (if somebody was inclined to babble on and on (although I try to think of somebody who would do that, and nobody comes to mind)) ABBA is different from ABAB, and also from BABBA and ABBABAABB, even though the last two include ABBA. Just like
1. It is a nice day
is different from
2. It is a disaster

even though they both include the phrase "it is"

So while I had fun making calculations, my reasoning was wrong. I was defeated. It is like, it's like

this problem was my Waterloo.

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