Dog Barks 376,572,715,308 Times


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Yeah, he's one of those dogs. If you live next door, he's going to get on your nerves. Thankfully, he gets all of his barking over quickly. In a mere 4 minutes and 40 seconds, he can bark 376,572,715,308 times. His owner, Jesse Hamel, helps. With a Python script, Hamel multiples each barking iteration 9 times. Soon, your screen and ears fill with barking Gabes.

-via Blame It on the Voices


There are limits to what humans can resolve in sound (and limits to what computers can play...), and you end up with a sound where it doesn't matter how many copies there are, just the overall pattern. This would be just like trying to draw billions of dots on a screen with a couple million pixels, where only the overall pattern matters. In principle, at several thousand barks a second, you could make it sound like just about anything else you wanted to by messing with the pattern.
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