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From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Tue Jul 10 09:14:11 2001

> > Arthur Clarke once wrote a story about some Tibetan (or
> > nearby) Buddhist monks using a computer to iterate all
> > the names of God, so that they could bring the world to
> > an end. Or maybe it was bradbury, but it seems I recall
> > Clarke...
>
> What if there is one or more names of God of infinite length?

Good point. The story, for Douglas, was indeed by Clarke, and I remember
the last line of the story, when the computer finished, and the stars
were going out. A neat little fable.

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