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I think he's comparing apples with oranges: maybe 10^80 is not so big, but the number of configurations of the 10^80 atoms is huge.

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That is entirely the point of the article.

It would be cool if there were more talk about properties we have observed of these configurations/which are more probable at any given instance, and efficient ways of computing such.

I think that was his point.

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