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Imagine if you could listen to the life stories of all 100 billion people that have ever lived. How many repeats would there be? How many distinctly unique?


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Re^2: How many stories does it take before you've heard them all?
by thezip (Vicar) on Dec 04, 2018 at 00:05 UTC

    Definitely should use a hash for this solution...


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Re^2: How many stories does it take before you've heard them all?
by shmem (Chancellor) on Dec 13, 2018 at 01:48 UTC
    How many distinctly unique?

    As many as there are unique snowflakes.

    perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'