Take this 4 letters O,P,S,T. How many meaningful words one can make with them? I can make 6 words.
Post, stop, tops, opts pots, spot.
Actually how many words one can make with 4 letters. It is mathematically given by factorial 4 =4! 4*3*2*1=24. Hence 24 words are possible. Some may be meaningless.
How many 4 letter words one can coin using 26 alphabets. There is a permutation formula to calculate it.
26! /[26-4]! = 26!/22! = 358800
Hence we can make 358800 words. { many words will be meaningless.} In addition to this, we can coin many 2 letter, 3 letter, 5 letter and so on words out of 26 alphabets. But the 20 volume oxford dictionary contains only 171476 entries. So we can understand that there is a room for many more new words.
Similarly using the available words, we can coin many many new sentences.
For example:
On reaching my house, I found the keys were missing.
On reaching keys in the car, I found my house was missing.
{the house which was situated on the slope of a hill crashed down due to landslide}
If the order of the words changes, meaning changes drastically. Hence words, sentences and literature has no end.
It seems that all the best melodies and songs had already been composed. But it is not. Using 7 musical notes [DO-RE-MI-FA-SOI-LA-SI], many more 3 note, 4 note and combinations of melodies are possible. There is a lot of work remains for new musical composers.
We know there are 2 binary digits 0 and 1. If there is only one position how many ways you can arrange them?
0
1 only 2 ways
if there are two positions,
00
01
10
11 4 ways
if 3 positions
000
001
010
011
100
101
110
111 8 ways
Hence if there are n places, we can arrange binary digits 2^n ways. If n = 8, 2^8 = 256. That means using 8 binary digits, we can encode 256 symbols like a,b,c, or 256 colours etc.
If we use 16 binary digits, we can encode more than 60000 symbols. since 2^16 = 65536.
Now we can understand that even just using 2 digits, so much of creation is possible.
DNA as stored all the information of our body{example: nose's colour, shape and size} using just 4 symbols arranged as three letter words in a tiny space of a cell.
Nature has created various kind of materials[100+] like hydrogen, iron, gold, uranium, Just using few fundamental particles protons, neutrons and electrons. Only the number of particles are different between materials. But the character of one material is totally different from another. Between gold and mercury, there is a difference of one proton only.
Also nature has created so many faces with same basic features. Nature is exhibiting so many flowers just using some petals, colours, and shapes.
Hence there is no limit for creation. If some one says 'all the food and travel blogs have been written', do not believe it. Just go ahead with your own creative work. Otherwise this world will come to a stand still without progress.
Very inspiring. While reading your post, I remembered a saying that the pi contains all the words ever written in this world.
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