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In order to find an interesting book, the integer that points to its location would have the same amount of bytes of information as the book itself, so finding
by porphyra 4y ago
In order to find an interesting book, the integer that points to its location would have the same amount of bytes of information as the book itself, so finding a good book is just as much work as writing it!
- mlyle 4y agoAll you need to do is keep the books in a heap by their interestingness. ;) Then finding the most interesting book is Θ(1). It does take a little bit of work to take it off the heap to see what's next on your reading list, though.
- mgdlbp 4y agoThe Library of Babel site uses an invertible PRNG for mapping position and content to allow searching https://libraryofbabel.info/book.cgi https://libraryofbabel.info/book.cgi https://libraryofbabel.info/theory4.html https://libraryofbabel.info/theory4.html