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jonotrain2
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jonotrain2
11y ago
1) You are assuming that the works need to be stored at all. They do not. As long as the same block of text can be located based on the same input, it is just as available as it would be if it were stored on disk or on any other type of sto
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jonotrain2
11y ago
Consider what Borges says about the impossibility of meaninglessness before feeling confident in such a calculation: In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, b
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jonotrain2
11y ago
This would only be true if the library stored all of its books on disk. It doesn't need to because of the algorithm it uses to generate the books, which is described here: https://libraryofbabel.info/theory4.html (dave