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by littlemissme on October 30th, 2005

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Will we ever run out of combinations of musical notes, so that no more new songs can be written?

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  • by ommnif on November 2nd, 2005

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    -As this question depends on how long the song is I have written a rule at the bottom in which given the number of seconds measuring the duration of the song it is possible to calculate how many songs are possible in that period of time.
    (The following numbers I work with are also theoretical but will give you a reasonable answer based on the human processing capabilities).

    The human hearing range is 20Hz to 20000Hz.
    Therefore range is 19980 (humans can't detect 10ths of hertz)

    Humans can hear from 0.00 to 250.00(any greater and you're deaf) decibels

    So that's 25,000 (for the loudness distinguishing)
    25000 * 19980 = 499500000

    Planck's time (smallest unit of time) is about 3.3 x 10-44 sec

    so that would be about (1.64835 * 10^53)*seconds of duration = number of possible songs.

    For 2 seconds there are a possible:
    329,670,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 songs possible, theoretically of course...

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