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So that you can play lower notes than the guitar is tuned for (in this case) and so that you can physically put your fingers in the places required to play those notes.

That's what alternate tuning does. It makes playing different notes more practical and, sometimes, is the only way you can do it.

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How many different tunes are their?

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Well, in theory, infinite.

But, you can narrow it down to what's on this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_guitar_tunings

(I'd put that off a while.)