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How would you name books in the Library of Babel? Giving each book a unique name would require as much information as the contents of the library itself. Unless
by sethev 11y ago
How would you name books in the Library of Babel? Giving each book a unique name would require as much information as the contents of the library itself. Unless you could re-arrange the library and bring the useful volumes together, you would never be able to make a catalog for it.
- eseehausen 11y agoBooks don't need to have a unique name, just like in normal libraries. You can basically assume a title is the first X characters of the total Y characters of a given text. The goal of the Library of Babel isn't to be a perfect key-value store, just to create all the permutations possible within certain conditions.