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You are reporting the following post to the moderators for review and possible removal from the forum Poster: fiftypence Subject: RE: Prob/Stats brain twister. Can anyone figure this out? Body: Maybe a more interesting question would be what's the longest sentence someone could make without using a comma, colon or semicolon? Otherwise, one could consider sentences like: "The list of all possible lists of english words is as follows "apple","apple,aardvark","apple,aardvark,apple"..." It should be pretty clear that there are an infinite number of sentences of that form. If we go with the exclusion I put above then we would get sentences of the form (+) With modifiers, I could see the standard sentence being as many as 20 words long. Let's say that there are 100,000 english words. (10^5)^20=10^100 sentences. This is probably an overestimation though as you can't use every word as every part of speech. Assuming that each spot only has about 20% of all words available to it, then you get (2*10^4)^20=~10^86 sentences. Hit the submit button below if you want us to review the post. If you feel this is urgent or want a reply, email us at letsrun@letsrun.com about the post and please include a link to the thread the post is on and what page number/post on that page it is
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