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Page 314. What? How? If this is something other than being able to write to libraryofbabel.info I am extremely confused.

• ikeboy 10y ago
  https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?qsocvxgaxgav.vlg378 https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?qsocvxgaxgav.vlg378
• r4pha 10y ago
  I think it is page 314 of _a_ book.
• stephancoral 10y ago
  https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?.lyjxgasnwrheuh,,jljexkg257 https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?.lyjxgasnwrheuh,,jl... Your comment was contained in this text before you even wrote it
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• dsp1234 10y ago
  As others have mentioned, since that statement is less than 3200 characters (and only uses the alphabet supported by the library), it had to be present in some book. The trick to seeing why it's on page 314 is to note that the spacing on the sentence is really odd. Since spaces are significant to the algorithm, the same words with different whitespace will end up on different pages of different books. From the information on https://libraryofbabel.info/referencehex.html https://libraryofbabel.info/referencehex.html, we can see that each book has exactly 410 pages. Assuming that for any phrase X, the page that that phrase is on is independent and equally likely, then there is a 1/410 chance that the phrased being searched will be on page 314. So just write a script that hits libraryofbabel.info automatically with randomized spacing. You'll likely end up on a page that is 314 in about 410 or so tries.