On May 18, 12:08pm in "Re: Weekly ramble...", you warbled: ] The length of the screen in bytes is 24576. The number of possible values ] for each byte is 256. So the total number of combinations is 256**24576, ] which is approximately 8.04E+59184.
Gulp. I knew I'd got it wrong... 72 days just didn't seem long enough :) ] If you bear in mind that the number of seconds in the lifetime of the ] universe is only 5E+17 (to within a factor of 2 or so) then you will ] realise the immensity of the task that is ahead of you... Well, I'm prepared to give it a try.... ;-) Geoff
