when one hundred million million poems just isn’t enough

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• Chris Joseph says:

  22nd January 2009 at 5:59 pm

  possible poem variations
  = 14 conjunctions * 207 pronouns/names * 584 verbs * 362 adjectives * 100 colour names * 1258 nouns * 16 lines
  = 1,233,162,820,915,200 = 1.2 quadrillion [1233 million million or 1.2 million billion] variations

  It would take approx. 2,466,325,642 [2.5 billion] years to read them all, reading 24 hours a day

  possible colour poem variations
  = poem variations * 16777216 colours
  = 1,233,162,820,915,200 * 16,777,216
  = 20,689,039,009,663,628,083,200 variations
  = 20 sextillion variations [70 sextillion stars in the known universe]

  It would take approx. 41,378,078,022,172,672 years [41 quadrillion years] to see them all, reading 24 hours a day