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More Trivia

#962
From: Dick Dysart STEWS-TE-LG 6125
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1989 16:21
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MORE TRIVIA

In the interest of understanding the normal file naming convention
of using 8 character primary file names, ignoring the normal 3 character
file extension, and restricting the file names to the character set
A to Z and the numbers 0 to 9, giving a usable character set of 36
characters:

                 file     char   unique file name
                 name      set   combinations
                length    size   available
        ------------------------------------------ 
                   1       36                  36
                   2       36               1,296
                   3       36              46,656
                   4       36           1,679,616
                   5       36          60,466,176
                   6       36       2,176,782,336
                   7       36      78,364,164,096
                   8       36   2,821,109,907,456
        ------------------------------------------

However, not all file names, in this context, will provide useful 
or informative indications of the content of the file.
Maybe we need more defined words in the current english language?
Enjoy,
Dick..
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