(urth) Sigh

[Jeff Wilson]

On 1/12/2011 12:09 AM, Adam Thornton wrote:
> But of course that, in turn, assumes that all the copies of the library
> are complete. If we then postulate that any iteration of the library may
> or may not have a copy of a particular book then the number of (complete
> and partial) libraries our immortal traveler must traipse through before
> encountering repetition becomes the power set of the number of complete
> libraries, or 2 ^ ( 10 ^ ( 2.4548624015714 x 10 ^ 1834215 ) ) . This,
> rightly, seems like a big number.
>
> But, in fact, to an arbitrarily good approximation, *all* integers are
> bigger than that.

Really? I would've said a bit less than half.

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