• e-ratic@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    There are an estimated 400 billion stars in the milky way galaxy and an estimated 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe. It would not be reasonable or even possible to give every star a unique alphabetical name even for all the known languages in history.

    • Eheran@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      We just need to combine words of different languages. Is there are 100 languages with 10’000 words each, that gives us … Overflow number of options. Thank you windows calculator, who needs arbitrary precision anyway. 10^20’000 is a big number tho.