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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsA 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.
underpants
(182,603 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,413 posts)to save it for last.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,321 posts)Hurry, there's not much time. Earth is to be demolished in favor of a galactic construction project. Plans were filed.
underpants
(182,603 posts)MLAA
(17,250 posts)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)For example, today I told a guy to go fuck himself. 3 times.
MLAA
(17,250 posts)hfojvt
(37,573 posts)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.
LuckyCharms
(17,413 posts)MLAA
(17,250 posts)hfojvt
(37,573 posts)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.
MLAA
(17,250 posts)Harker
(13,976 posts)33 x 12.72727272727273 = 420.
÷10=42.
x10=420
Harker
(13,976 posts)That's a number, I think.