[Dixielandjazz] Permutations

[Robert Smith]

Steve,

If you compose four bars each consisting of four straight crotchets, then there are 184884250000000000 possible tunes that can be written, so I think it'll be some time before all tunes have been composed. If each tune takes one second to compose then the earth will be swallowed by the sun before all the tunes are composed.
It makes you think, don't it?

Cheers

Bob Smith