Every English Word That Could Ever Exist
Microcontroller, Computer code, Printer
2011
Using an Arduino open source microcontroller and a
dot matrix printer, Rob Dunne has created a prototype that generates every possible combination of the English alphabet.
If this work were to run continuously to 29 letters - one more than antidisestablishmentarianism, the longest non-technical word in usage - it would generate approximately
3000000000000000000000000000000TB of data and take 31250000000000000000000000000 days to complete.
In which time the Sun will have died.
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Every English Word That Could Ever Exist
Using an Arduino open source microcontroller and a dot matrix printer, Rob Dunne has created a prototype that generates every possible combination of the English alphabet.
If this work were to run continuously to 29 letters - one more than antidisestablishmentarianism, the longest non-technical word in usage - it would generate approximately 3000000000000000000000000000000TB of data and take 31250000000000000000000000000 days to complete.
In which time the Sun will have died.
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