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  I did this with sentences as a kid, come up with the most random stuff and think, "I'm probably the first person to ever say that" >
  
  I do it when I cut down trees. I stand on the stump and say “I’m the only person in the universe that’s ever stood right here!” >
  
  I pour foundations.  Many times I've thought I'm the first/only person to stand here, touch this dirt, pee here, etc. >
  
  Please don’t pee in my foundation >
  
  Oh yeah, every concrete basement foundations corners have been urinated on, likely by many men. Many, many, many, many men. >
  
  Were they wishin’ death 'pon me? >
  
  Rainin’ pee ‘pon me >
  
  Pee’s burnin’ my eyes and now I can’t see >
  
  I still fought, despite my disability >
  
  But the pee's clouding my reality >
  
  47,334,923,912 is my non fungible number. Please don't copy and paste it thanks >
  
  47,334,923,912, sorry mate >
  
  😤 well now I have a new one. Go ahead.. try to guess it >
  
  I’m gonna code a program to brute force your number. It will cycle through all the possible numbers >
  
  num=1,000,000,000;
  while(true):
      num+=1
      print(num)
  Now we wait >
  
  curly brace gang rise up
  ```
  include 
  int main () {
      int num = 1000000000;
      while (true) {
          printf("%d\n", num);
          num++;
      }
      return 0;
  }
  ``` >
  
  Don’t forget to add new lines or risk your output being absolutely unreadable >
  
  I was just using pseudo code for the funnies!
  Now I am waiting for the machine code chads to come in with full optimisations for speed >
  
  What is the size of int on the machine you’re using? On certain architectures it can only go to 32727, and the rest will have undefined behavior (but probably wrap around) at 2147483647 >
  
  Buying tbow 2147m, meet my main bournos in cammy >
  
  I wonder what the lowest number that no one's ever spoken is. >
  
  Are we talking real numbers, or the other kind, without the decimals?  Because there are more numbers in between zero and one than there are to infinity >
  
  There's the same amount of numbers in both, infinity. >
  
  If there's the same amount 
  Pair one decimel to every whole number, take the first digital in tur first decimel, add one, thrn add one to the second on the second, then the third of the third all the way down the list
  You have a new decimel. There's more decimel numbers between 0 and 1 than whole numbers >
  
  Huh, interesting. >
  
  I knew binging every single vsauce video would come in handy! >
  
  There's a really good documentary about infinity on Netflix if you have it, highly recommended >
  
  Yea I do, what's it called?
  (If it's called infinity istg) >
  
  Ha, close
  'A trip to infinity" >
  
  That's a long trip
  Almost as long as how roadtrips feel
  And thanks! Il check it out >
  
  Reminds me of that QI bit about a shuffled deck of cards.
  Apparently the order of any shuffled deck of cards is, in the history of the world, unique. >
  
  Very likely unique, but there is a (very slim) chance you shuffle to an order that already occured. >
  
  Roughly a 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% chance 
  To put that in to perspective, if you started shuffling cards into each unique order, once every minute, since the Big Bang, you’d still be going. In fact you wouldn’t even be halfway through. You wouldn’t even be a quarter of the way through. You’d be going until the sun collapsed, and even then you’d still not be finished. >
  
  Probability is scary >
  
  That's more than 80,600,000, 000,000,000, 000,000,000, 000,000,000, 000,000,000, 000,000,000, 000,000,000, 000,000 possible ways to shuffle the deck >
  
  Actually the total number of ways to shuffle a deck is only 52! >
  
  r/technicallythetruth
  r/unexpectedfactorial >
  
  Can anyone do the math on that. Like if there are about 2 billion seconds in a lifetime, how many people would it take for the minimum amount of people to say every number between 1 billion and 999,999,999,999 >
  
  Assuming 5 seconds to say a number the 2 billion second lifetime and no brakes (no sleep, no eating, just counting) it's about 2500 lifetimes. >
  
  At first I called BS, then I considered and recorded myself saying 48,317,603 and it took 3.65 seconds, and considering 1-100 are all said in about a second or less, and saying 888,888,889 taking 5.09 seconds to say, I'd say 5 seconds per number is quite fair.
  Bravo to whoever put that out there first >
  
  As a kid sometimes when I was staring at the moon I'd think to myself that there must be at least one other person looking at it at the same time and also thinking the same thing, creating somewhat of a temporary bond. >
  
  somewhere out there
  beneath the pale moonlight... >
  
  Heh, you're old. (I immediately thought the same thing) >
  
  79 billion, 327 million, 2 hundred and 79 thousand, 8 hundred and 53. 
  Or 79,327,279,853.
  Thanks, now I feel special! >
  
  Bro, I literally said that number last week. But whatever makes you happy I guess >
  
  Oh damn.. What are the odds of that?! >
  
  I've done the math and it's 1 in 646,383,646,383,836,483. Give or take about 5. >
  
  Coincidentally I said it also.  What are the chances that 3 of us said it? >
  
  you know, that's not bad.
  beats the hell out of this subs usual parade of unoriginal thoughts, braindead takes, opinions and just flat out misinformation. >
  
  The question that really bakes my noodle is: "what's the lowest number you've never said out loud" >
  
  im stealing “bakes my noodle”, that made me chuckle >
  
  But would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything? >
  
  You can just play a random match of chess and it will most likely be completely unique and never played before. Permutations get wild. >
  
  I read somewhere that If you shuffle a deck of cards its likely that never any deck has had the cards in the same order. It was propably in a vsauce video >
  
  Just because you can become the first person to pronounce gibberish, doesn't mean you'll ever truly understand the real meaning of Jibber Jabber and Giffle Gaffle.  I don't care how many times you read it. >
  
  We have even come up with numbers so large you could write them even if each digit represented a single atom of the observable universe, such as Graham's number or TREE(3). >
  
  There's rly not that many atoms in the universe, about 10^80 so simple googol is enough. Just watch Vsouce on numbers. >
  
  There are so many numbers it's funny that most people's favorite number is between 1-100. My favorite number is so large it would take a billion lifetimes just to write. >
  
  I’m not quite sure why, but I’m getting phantom tollbooth vibes from this >
  
  Damn,,,, genius idea. Thanks friend, I'm now off to leave my mark on the history of humanity. >
  
  My toilet is brand new, so I’m the only person to ever shit in it. Not as good as I expected. >
  
  Jeez, how much did OP smoke to come up with this observation?! 😂 >
  
  When you shuffle a deck of cards, it's extremely likely that no cards have ever been in that order before >
  
  I disagree with you. You just spurred me to make a post on Eli5. Check my profile where I debunk your myth >
  
  And it already got shut down lol maybe just listen to people next time instead of thinking you’re smarter >
  
  That’s a terrible idea. You must question everything >
  
  Why?/s >
  
  Questioning is the cornerstone of science. >
  
  This >
  
  Another observation so obvious most people don’t bother to point it out. Good job. >
  
  If it has 27 digits it’s almost a guarantee. I saw a YouTube video about it once >
  
  I am hereby copyrighting the number 27371774627746283627736. From now, anyone choosing to use this number needs to credit me >
  
  Fine I'll have to settle for 27371774627746283627735 my second favorite number >
  
  It would be entertaining if a millionaire or some rich person started a contest, a race where you can win $500,000,000 if you're the first to be able to say all the numbers from 1 to 1,000,000,000.
  There can be a hundred or a thousand contestants, all aiming for the same thing. Everyone will be dropped on an island and there's a mic attached to the helmet they're wearing to ensure that they are actually counting. Upon landing on the island, they will begin counting from 1 to 1,000,000,000. They are allowed to use any means necessary to stop others from successfully counting to a billion. There will be weapon and food crate drops that will happen daily which contestants can fight each other for while they count numbers. >
  
  This is just hunger games once you added that last paragraph. Really no need to count numbers with all that added fanfare lmao >
  
  Yup, you would be better off killing everyone, and then trying to count afterwards. >
  
  I was just thinking about this yesterday. There are numbers out there that have never been written or spoken. You can be the first >
  
  I claim to be the first person to pronounce 871,331,684,209
  Timestamp 30th Dec 2022, 3.59am, GMT+0 >
  
  Ooh sorry dude, I said that out loud yesterday. >
  
  I call dibs on 420,069,420,069. Thank you for your cooperation folks.
  Now you can call right amongst yourselves for the rest. :-) >
  
  And if we could coordinate with every one of the 8 billion people in the world, we could knock out every number under a trillion in like 10 minutes. >
  
  Here is a sentence nobody has ever said “stop sucking my dick maam or I’m calling the police” >
  
  Doubtful. There are probably people who have ADHD who beat you to the punch. >
  
  Here’s a crazy fact: there is a high probability that many of the sentences you’ve uttered or written are the first and only time someone has ever done that. >
  
  Alright I shall be claiming 567,443,256,069,420,734,034,139,227 as my number...so here on out it shall be referred to as the pika number >:) >
  
  I mean, you could say that about “single” digit numbers, too, if your decimal goes out far enough. >
  
  Did you just copy me? >
  
  Yes. >
  
  Yes. >
  
  Well now you're copying me. >
  
  Perfectly balanced, as all things should be. >
  
  what is it? >
  
  About
  The Library of Babel is a place for scholars to do research, for artists and writers to seek inspiration, for anyone with curiosity or a sense of humor to reflect on the weirdness of existence - in short, it’s just like any other library. If completed, it would contain every possible combination of 1,312,000 characters, including lower case letters, space, comma, and period. Thus, it would contain every book that ever has been written, and every book that ever could be - including every play, every song, every scientific paper, every legal decision, every constitution, every piece of scripture, and so on. At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 10^4677 books. >
  
  If you tried to count from one to a billion without stopping it would take you almost 32 years. >
  
  I can count to ten. I can count to a hundred. I know the numbers on the way to a billion, but I can't count them >
  
  i have 493,482,009 bananas and jimmy eats 672,302,457 of them where did joey hide his guitar hint it’s not the 87,573,201st banana >
  
  There is a mental disorder, arithomania, that makes people count. Usually things around them but I don't think it's a far stretch someone would get fixated on say counting grains of sand or something and spend most of their life doing it. >
  
  300,000,000,000,000,000 has definitely not been said enough. They didn’t even know if they were going to call it quadrillion or not for the longest >
  
  Eight billion, four hundred and sixty two million, nine hundred and twelve thousand, one hundred and three. >
  
  I wonder if anyone has ever spoken this number before I just did. 110,586,739,209,111,477,824.87. 
  Doubt it. >
  
  False. I counted to infinity plus 4 when I was in the second grade. >
  
  It's late, and my dumb ass thought it said "you could be the first person to count to a billion".
  Spoiler alert: you can't >
  
  I said my number in the trillions just to make sure it’s mine. I’ll be honest, I think this must be how people given a square foot of Scottish land must feel. Thanks! >
  
  For some reason as a kid I thought of the number 6,009,762 and it sounded so wonderful to me it became a weird mantra that my mind will return to occasionally. >
  
  Here's a guide for short scale number names if you want to be the first to say something ridiculous
  1 = one
  10 = ten
  100 = hundred
  1,000 = thousand
  1,000,000 = million
  1,000,000,000 = billion
  1,000,000,000,000 = trillion
  10¹⁵ = quadrillion
  10¹⁸ = quintillion
  10²¹ = sextillion
  10²⁴ = septillion
  10²⁷ = octillion
  10³⁰ = nonillion
  10³³ = decillion
  10³⁶ = undecillion
  10³⁹ = duodecillion
  10⁴² = tredecillion
  10⁴⁵ = quattuordecillion
  10⁴⁸ = quindecillion
  10⁵¹ = sedecillion
  10⁵⁴ = septendecillion
  10⁵⁷ = octodecillion
  10⁶⁰ = novemdecillion
  10⁶³ = vigintillion
  10⁶⁶ = unvigintillion
  10⁶⁹ = duovigintillion
  10⁷² = trevigintillion
  10⁷⁵ = quattuorvigintillion
  10⁷⁸ = quinvigintillion
  10⁸¹ = sesvigintillion
  10⁸⁴ = septemvigintillion
  10⁸⁷ = octovigintillion
  10⁹⁰ = novemvigintillion
  10⁹³ = trigintillion
  10⁹⁶ = untrigintillion
  10⁹⁹ = duotrigintillion
  10¹⁰⁰ = 10 duotrigintillion = 1 googol
  10¹²³ = quadragintillion
  10¹⁵³ = quinquagintillion
  10¹⁸³ = sexagintillion
  10²¹³ = septuagintillion
  10²⁴³ = octogintillion
  10²⁷³ = nonagintillion
  10³⁰³ = centillion
  Notes:
  This is the short scale numbering system that the US uses. Your country may use the long scale, which is even more ridiculous
  Yeah, if we suddenly had a 13th month in our calendar after december it'd probably be Undecember lol
  Take note that if the number "thousand" didn't exist and 1,000 = million, all would be right in the world
  Edit: formatting >
  
  When you shuffle a deck of cards properly, it is highly likely the resulting arrangement of the cards is the first and only time it has and ever will come up. >
  
  Remind of that one scp which is a real number you can't think of and crashes any computer which displays it >
  
  Do you mean count into the billions out loud? Pretty sure that would take decades. Best of luck. >
  
  Nope OP meant if you just write out a long number and say it out loud there’s a good chance you’re the only one to ever speak that number >
  
  That still seems like quite a stretch, lol. >
  
  There's more numbers than people. Even if everyone on earth said 1,000,000 different numbers. There would still be a shit ton that nobody has ever said. So I think its realistic to say that some numbers have never been said before. >
  
  I guess I hadn't paused long enough to give it enough thought, I take your point. >
  
  Four hundred and twenty billion, four hundred and twenty million four hundred and twenty thousand four hundred and twenty.
  Probably been said.
  Don't care. >
  
  It has now. Probably the most said number in the billions ever. >
  
  Don't make me try to actually do the math on it. There's got to be one involved in some common proof that gets brought up all the time >
  
  The Library of Babel would like to disagree with you.