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https://libraryofbabel.app/
The Library of Babel contains all texts that were ever or will ever be written using the English alphabet, up to 1,312,000 characters.
That's absurd!
Fucking hell. There's literally no original combination of words anymore. I've been plagiarized in advance.
Also, it's kind of creepy that you would do this to me...
Sorry. I've deleted it.
Also, that website doesn't actually store all possible permutations of letters, that would be absurd. It's just clever math and presentation to simulate such a library.
Still, you can search for any text string and receive an index number showing where to find it (the number alone is ~1MB in size).
And if you enter that index, you'll always get back to that same page containing your text.
Or you can select books and pages at random and browse to see if you find something interesting.
It's a neat piece of mathematical art.
Oh, so it doesn't actually have every page already, but generates them on command? That's... interesting...
You couldn't store every page if you transformed every atom that ever existed in the universe into a 100 TB hard drive, and it wouldn't even be close.
If each book has a finite number of pages with a finite number of lines with a finite number of characters, then theoretically the number of books is finite and therefore also the number of shelves, walls, and rooms required to hold them.
So given 32 characters (including letters and punctuation), the total number of possible books = 32^80×40×410^ = 32^1,312,000^ = yeah, you're right, that's incalculable...
But whatever it is, you can divide it by 640 to get the total number of necessary rooms!
It'd be a great thing to dovetail into something like nepenthes or iocaine, though! Let the AI crawlers train themselves on that!