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Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson -
On second thoughts he must be working on this one:
Researchers are now hoping to move on to even bigger problems. However, it seems that grand master of the board games - chess - may remain unsolved for some time.
It has somewhere in the range of a billion billion billion billion billion possible positions, meaning that computers, with their current capacity, would takes aeons to solve it.Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson -
Originally posted by gingerjediOn second thoughts he must be working on this one:
Researchers are now hoping to move on to even bigger problems. However, it seems that grand master of the board games - chess - may remain unsolved for some time.
It has somewhere in the range of a billion billion billion billion billion possible positions, meaning that computers, with their current capacity, would takes aeons to solve it.Comment
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Originally posted by gingerjediwould takes aeons [/I]
'Imagine a steel sphere as large as the Earth itself, and once every 1,000 years a fly lands on its surface and takes off again. When the sphere has completely worn away from the friction of this action, eternity will not have even begun.'It's about time I changed this sig...Comment
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Originally posted by Old GregI've heard it said of a game of chess of average length, that there are more permutations than atoms in the universe.
Number of atoms in the universe 10 to the power of 79
Number of possible chess moves 10 to the power of 126
So quite a few more then.Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave JohnsonComment
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At such times a when people quote number like that, I am always reminded of this: YouTubeDrivel is my specialityComment
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