Comment by ape4
7 hours ago
The error was saying that "infinitely many alphabets can be generated" but there is a finite number of parameters which have a finite range of values. If Knuth had just written "a humongous number of alphabets" he would be correct.
If I am reading this right, you can generate 268 435 456 ^ 62 alphabets.
I would say he could have even gotten away with “functionally infinite number of alphabets”.
Some of the parameters are bools. So somewhere between 2^62 and your figure...