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when one hundred million million poems just isn’t enough

from Raymond Queneau’s One hundred million million poems + Do You Remember Do You Remember (For Alison Knowles)

flash source: wohmmpjie_fl8.fla (80KB)

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11 responses to “when one hundred million million poems just isn’t enough”

  1. babel avatar
    babel

    stats:

    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

  2. babel avatar
    babel

    stats:

    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

  3. runran avatar
    runran

    shades of trurl

  4. runran avatar
    runran

    shades of trurl

  5. runran avatar
    runran

    the fla file downloads as an unexpected file format

    word = curious

    >:r

  6. runran avatar
    runran

    the fla file downloads as an unexpected file format

    word = curious

    >:r

  7. babel avatar
    babel

    hmm, have uploaded another – let me know if it works out

    http://www.box.net/shared/6z3rfjfzpa

  8. runran avatar
    runran

    yup, works, gracis

    >:r

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