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TIL that of the 1 sexvigintillion (10 followed by 81 zeros) of combinations of digits in a nine by nine grid only 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000066 % are possible sudoku solutions yet there are so many that no randomly generated sudoku will appear twice

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