-> Clarke, I think - The Nine Billion Names of God.  Monks have been calculatin 
-> all the possible names of God for millenia believing that the universe will  
-> when they are done.  They hire a computer consultant who gets it done for th 
-> in days/months. 
  
I heard they were doing the Tower of Hanoi puzzle with 64 disks. I 
don't know how many moves that takes, but I'm sure it's a lot more than 
nine billion. M(n) = 2*M(n-1)+1. M(1) = 1. So what's M(64)? 
  
The puzzle is extremely easy to program on a computer. 
  
                       dow 
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