>Producing every possible
>permutation of a 60 x 60 pixel area even in black and white is an enormous
>number. Something like 2 to the power of 3600.
The largest number mathematicians usually deal with is a googolplex
(really). That's 10 to the 100th power, and as Colin noted, greater than
the total number of elementary particles in the known universe (about 10 ^ 80).
Let's get really OT--the name googolplex was invented by the American
mathematician Edward Kasner's 9-year-old nephew. Kasner asked the boy to
invent a name for a very large number, bigger than anything that can be put
into words. His nephew called it a "googol," and mathematicians have been
calling it googolplex ever since.
Don't know if you could do it in Lingo--it might be larger than maxInt :-)
Cordially,
Kerry Thompson
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