Paolo Bolzoni

  THE RISE AND FALL OF AN ARTIFICIAL IDIOT, AKA FOOL AN ARTIFICIAL FOOL WRITES The Western alphabet has 26 letters. Each vocal has a number of alternatives based on the different languages, 34 alternatives in total.  8 for “a”, 7 for “e”, 6 for “I”, 8 for “o”, 5 for “u” There are 13 symbols of punctuation. «.» «,» «;» «:» «!» «?» «*» « » «/» «( )» «-» «–» A total of 73 letters and symbols of punctuation. The Chinese alphabet has 85,000 characters… The total number of 73 permutations with repetitions allowed is a staggering 10,533,405,146,807,286,720,373,659,460,502,060,785,759,379,112,212,598,116,064,998,418,834,781,689,316,645,387,966,435,364,502,141,349,866,164,216,580,595,609,788,325,190,062,013,833 It is the result of a simple function that every high school student must know. This staggering number contains every text ever written by mankind, in any language, converted in Western letters and symbols of punctuation, since the dawn of civilisation, and every text that will ...