"The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke is a science fiction story set in a Tibetan monastery. The story revolves around a project that the monks have been working on for three centuries. The project involves compiling a list of all possible names of God. According to the monks, all of God's names can be written with no more than nine letters in an alphabet they have devised. They have been systematically permuting letters to list all possible names.
The monks seek the help of ...