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It's fun to think about all the things that are in the library. E.g. your exact genome, or the genome of a T. Rex. A hi-def version of every movie ever made, en
by staplung 5y ago
It's fun to think about all the things that are in the library. E.g. your exact genome, or the genome of a T. Rex. A hi-def version of every movie ever made, encoded in a suitable format that respects the limitations of the allowed "alphabet" (most of those would look like noise to a reader). A hi-def version of every movie that could be made. All music. This post. The entire internet. A description of every event that has ever occurred. The meaning of life, the universe and everything.
If gets even more fun when you try to think about transcriptions of infinitely long things, like the digits of pi. They wouldn't find in one volume of course but so what? The number of possible volumes in the library is finite but the digits of pi are not.