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So first off... In trying to figure out this answer, I discovered we actually broke a million images quite a while ago. That's INSANE.

And it turns out... The possibilities are quite a bit more endless than your inventory, actually! ;)

You can certainly count the number of items in your inventory if you really cared to take the time. But even if you could assign the fastest computer ever made to count one possibility every clock tick (~10 billion per second) and it could survive the heat death of the universe (somewhere around a googol years)... you wouldn't even make a dent in it.

If every tick of that computer were to start a new pocket universe running the original computer... still basically 0% of the way through the count.

What if you let the computers in the new pocket universes start up new pocket universes themselves? Well, okay, sure. Do that enough times and you can finish counting them before the parent universe dies. But to pull that off, your universes would have to be nested over sixty-four thousand layers deep, each layer containing 100 quadrillion googol (that is, 10^117) times more computers than the layer above it.

I'd call that pretty endless!

EDIT: One sec, these numbers aren't working out right because working backwards to check my math isn't working...

EDIT 2: Oh, that's why, I was rooting when I was supposed to be dividing. Fixed!

EDIT 3: Also, this assumes you only equip one copy of any given pose. If you allow duplicates in order to play with transparency effects, the number is actually infinite.
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Old Posted 11-18-2019, 03:42 PM Reply With Quote