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It's a website built by Jonathan Basile that currently offers everything that has been or could be written.
it would contain every possible combination of 1,312,000 characters, including lower case letters, space, comma, and period. Thus, it would contain every book that ever has been written, and every book that ever could be - including every play, every song, every scientific paper, every legal decision, every constitution, every piece of scripture, and so on. At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 104677 books.
Basile has organized it all into hexagon-shaped rooms, each with four walls of books containing five shelves with 32 volumes of four hundred and ten pages each.
Everything's arranged in a pseudo-random fashion, so browsing the online library feels like a treasure hunt.
Each page is given a unique sequential page number in base 10. The text on each page is encased inside this number. An algorithm Basile created uses the page number as a seed to generate a unique big number. That output is then converted into base 29 so that it can be represented using every letter in the English alphabet as well as the comma, the space and the period. Basile has made sure that the algorithm will produce every possible combination and the same page number will create the same output every time. Which means that what is on each page is already predetermined. So, in a way, every page already exists. It only needs to be looked up. And here is the really mind blowing thing. The contents of a page can be converted to base 10, sent through the inverted algorithm and turned into the exact page number they're found on. It's a truly eerie experience, because you can find the permanent location for any 3200 character text.
***this is just only an simple introduction.
medyo magulo sya intindihin. haha
credits to Vsauce.
eto ung link kung gusto nyo pa mas maintindihan about sa library of babel, hindi sya full length video about sa library, but I suggest na panoorin na rin sya ng buo. worth watching!
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Etol yung link ng library. bahala na kayo mag explore kung alam nyo na sya gamitin.
kase ako di ko pa sya alam gamitin! lol
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Adios.
it would contain every possible combination of 1,312,000 characters, including lower case letters, space, comma, and period. Thus, it would contain every book that ever has been written, and every book that ever could be - including every play, every song, every scientific paper, every legal decision, every constitution, every piece of scripture, and so on. At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 104677 books.
Basile has organized it all into hexagon-shaped rooms, each with four walls of books containing five shelves with 32 volumes of four hundred and ten pages each.
Everything's arranged in a pseudo-random fashion, so browsing the online library feels like a treasure hunt.
Each page is given a unique sequential page number in base 10. The text on each page is encased inside this number. An algorithm Basile created uses the page number as a seed to generate a unique big number. That output is then converted into base 29 so that it can be represented using every letter in the English alphabet as well as the comma, the space and the period. Basile has made sure that the algorithm will produce every possible combination and the same page number will create the same output every time. Which means that what is on each page is already predetermined. So, in a way, every page already exists. It only needs to be looked up. And here is the really mind blowing thing. The contents of a page can be converted to base 10, sent through the inverted algorithm and turned into the exact page number they're found on. It's a truly eerie experience, because you can find the permanent location for any 3200 character text.
***this is just only an simple introduction.
medyo magulo sya intindihin. haha
credits to Vsauce.
eto ung link kung gusto nyo pa mas maintindihan about sa library of babel, hindi sya full length video about sa library, but I suggest na panoorin na rin sya ng buo. worth watching!
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Etol yung link ng library. bahala na kayo mag explore kung alam nyo na sya gamitin.
kase ako di ko pa sya alam gamitin! lolYou do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.
Adios.