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There are an estimated 400 billion stars in the milky way galaxy and an estimated 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe. It would not be reasonable or even possible to give every star a unique alphabetical name even for all the known languages in history.
We just need to combine words of different languages. Is there are 100 languages with 10'000 words each, that gives us ... Overflow number of options. Thank you windows calculator, who needs arbitrary precision anyway. 10^20'000 is a big number tho.