On Apr 13, 8:53 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm pretty sure you could give a separate name to each atom ont he known > universe with a scheme like this. Do you really need 20-byte strings? >
Steve, Based on the Wikipedia article's estimate of 10**79 atoms in the observable universe (is that all?), we would need a string of about 57 characters long to give each one a separate name. (And I'll bet you've typed on an old Royal or two in your time...) -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
