Arthur C. Clarke.net. The Nine Billion Names of God is another religiously rooted story about monks getting a supercomputer to find all names of God to be ready when he comes. For such a short story, The Nine Billion Names of God has a lot to say about faith, fate, and hubris while leaving a lot to the imagination. Nine Billion Names of God (Clarke) "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke. This task is a variation of the short story by Arthur C. Clarke. Short Bio (NNDB) There are some stories about anti-gravity, new worlds, horse like creatures who meet tiny creatures who may outsmart them before too long. To include a little background from Clarke’s forward in his 1974 reprise anthology "The Nine Billion Names of God" (Signet, The New American Library Inc.), we learn that this tale was written during a rainy weekend in the Roosevelt Hotel, NY, in May 1952. (Solvers should be aware of the consequences of completing this task.) There are some stories about anti-gravity, new worlds, horse like creatures who meet tiny creatures who may outsmart them before too long. “The Nine Billion Names of God” follows three employees of a computer company as they sell, deliver and maintain a relatively large and fast computer to a group of Tibetan monks. The monks want the computer to help them print out all the possible names of God, of which they believe there are about nine billion. If it contains a prophecy, it is one that cannot be verified for several billion years. 9 billion names of God the integer You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know. The Nine Billion Names of God is another religiously rooted story about monks getting a supercomputer to find all names of God to be ready when he comes. 1953. Text (also in textbook) Audio/video recording (YouTube) Another Audio/video recording (sfaudio) Arthur C. Clarke, author! It makes sense that the story by Arthur C. Clarke finally won a retrospective Hugo Award for best short story. Arthur C. Clarke Foundation. In this way it's a lot like a "ghost story" or urban legend. The Nine Billion Names of God is basically a horror story. From The Nine Billion Names of God: The Best Short Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (1967: rpt.

The purpose of the ending is to surprise and unsettle the reader, rather than to indicate some underlying truth or convey some significant message. The nine billion names of God; the best short stories of Arthur C. Clarke Item Preview