| Edwin Lowe the originator of
the game "Lowe's Bingo" sought the services of a
math professor at Columbia University , Carl Leffler, to expand
the amount of number combinations. In 1930, Professor Leffler
devised 6,000 bingo cards with non-repeating number groups.
It was said that he completed the task successfully,
and then went insane.
In the 1800's a Lotto game similar to Bingo
was used as an educational tool Germany designed to teach
children multiplication tables.
Calculating the total number of possible combinations
yields the result that there exists 552,446,474,061,129,000,000,000,000
possible BINGO cards, 4,976,640,000 of which would have the
same twenty four numbers, but in a different arrangement.
If we presume that there are six billion people
in the world today, that means that there are 92,074,412,343,521,400
cards for each and every person in the world.
If you could print a million cards per second,
it would take 17,505,972,382,599.7 years to print every possible
BINGO card
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