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Message #11755



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Richard Caudle" richard@cqc.com
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 21:20:02 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Zenbot



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> It reminded me of an old sci-fi story about Tibetan monks using a compute=
r to print >out all the names of God, speeding many centuries' of work with=
pen and ink to
> completion in a matter of days and then the universe winked out. Oops!

The 9,000,000,000 Names of God. In a collection of short stories called Ni=
ghtfall. Great stuff! I read it about 20 years ago or so. At least I thi=
nk that's the name of the book! When you get old, the memory's the first t=
hings to go!

Richard


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or so.  At least I think that's the name of the book!  When you g=
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old, the memory's the first things to go!

 

Richard




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