Thoughts on the Library of Babel

Dec 10, 2008 20:26

Each book in the Library of Babel has 1312000 characters (22 letters, space, comma and period). This means that there are 251312000 ~= 1.956 * 101834097 books. This is a really really big number. There are only about 1080 atoms in the observable universe. If we wanted a set of unique books, each dedicated to an atom, each book would only have to be ( Read more... )

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lambda_calculus December 11 2008, 04:54:17 UTC
Every day I cry because I am not Borges

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