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Originally Posted by pdurrant
An interesting theory. Since the universe is likely to last at least as long as it has already, that would imply a thread lasting more than 25 billion years. I think we'd break the post counter.
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If the thread reached the limit of the post counter it would not be the end. All the counter would have to do is the same thing that is done with roman numerals: make the next number after the limit "1" and call the new set of numbers "numbers of the second order." What the limit is reached you start over again with "numbers of the third order" and so on.
Deep number theory win.