On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:06, Stephen Robert Norris wrote:
> > 1) The chance of a combination of binary code coming out in the exact
> > format of "+++ath0" is literally staggering. Winning lotto, by
> > comparison, would be an every day event.
>
> Yes, 1 in 72057594037927936.
Out of interest, how many possible chars is this based on?
128!/7!*121! = 9.45257952E10
256!/7!*249! = NaN ( on a 64 bit double.. That's HUGE! )
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