Hallo Jorj
KM> Is 9.nnn.nnn.nnn (9 billion something) correct?
JS>> How many characters must the names have?
JS> 
JS>  Do you have the required Mark V computer?  The title is "The
JS>  Nine Billion Names of God," yes, and if the number is more exact
Thanks for your info. That helps a lot. 
JS>  We don't know.  We do know that it takes their computer about
JS>  three and a half months working around the clock (except for
JS>  maintenance breaks and a well-timed delay at the end) to run the
JS>  permutations, but not knowing the speed of the system or the
JS>  number of characters they're permutating, or even the definite
JS>  maximum length of the names, I don't think that helps much.
At least we know some boundaries. I wonder how long it would take a 200 Mhz 
Wintel programmed in a really modern batch language...  ;-))
Grsse aus Ostrhauderfehn, 
*Klaus Meinhard*
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