"Michiel van der Vlist -> Miles Maxted" 
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 MvdV> Hello Miles,

 MvdV> On Thursday March 20 2008 15:00, you wrote to me:

 MvV>>> Asimov
 MvV>>> Heinlein
 MvV>>> Clarke
 MvV>>> .....

 MM>> Wasn't it Asimov's story about the "Names of God" that ended up
 MM>> with the returning computer guru observing the stars overhead
 MM>> going out, one by one ?

 MvdV> All three have written so much, that I lost track of who wrote what. But
 MvdV> what you describe sounds like Asimov. Yes, I think it was Asimov.

Clarke, I think - The Nine Billion Names of God.  Monks have been
calculating all the possible names of God for millenia believing that the
universe will end when they are done.  They hire a computer consultant who
gets it done for them in days/months.

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