Key Ideas

1. The Nine Billion Names of God is a science fiction short story written by Arthur C. Clarke. It was first published in 1953.

2. The story is set in a remote Tibetan lamasery where a group of monks are using an enormous computer to compile a list of all possible names of God.

3. The computer, which is referred to as 'the Mark V Automatic Sequence Computer', is programmed to print out the final name in the list once it is complete.

4. The monks believe that once all the names of God are known, the universe will come to an end and a new one will begin.

5. The protagonist of the story, Georg....
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