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5 Sep 2024 17:15:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Astromonical numbers  
From: Tim Cook
Date: 11 Jun 2009 08:19:12
Message: <4a30f640$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> So far, I have yet to find anything outside mathematics that even 
> remotely approaches a googol.

256^307200  Number of unique 8-bit 640x480 images.

Assuming flat greyscale, 0=black, 255=white, how many are recognisable 
as 'something'?  How many of those are similar apart from 'noise', 
rotation, and other minor distortion?  How many of those are legible 
text?  ...that are of a monkey at a typewriter that visibly contains a 
phrase from Shakespeare? etc

--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net


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