8x8 grid and 42 times the age of the universe.

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If each of the squares on a chess board (or any 8 x 8 grid or 64 individual squares) can be either black or white then if each and every possible arrangement of the squares is seen at a rate of one per second then it will take 42 times the age of the universe to see them all.

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