I think its 255^2 + 8^17. The two "." account for 255^2 and there are 8^17 strings of length 17 with an 8 character alphabet.
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 19:26 -0500, josh wrote:
> sorry if some folks recieve this twice, my mail server is on the
> fritz.
>
> ^.[\\[\]{}17.]{17}.$
>
> I think, 255^2 + 8^16 possible strings?
>
> my smtp capabilities are on the fritz, so my apologies if anyone
> recieves
> duplicate emails from me.
>
>
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