The Library of Babel is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges about a library that contains all possible 410-page books with a character set of 25 characters (22 letters, spaces, periods, and commas), with 80 lines per book and 40 characters per line.
The number of books is equal to 251,312,000 ≈ 1.956 × 101,834,097, known as Borges' number. The number of ways to arrange those books is about 10101,834,102, the factorial of Borges' number.
Specific numbers[]
- Each book has 410 pages.
- Each book page has 3,200 characters.
- HaydenTheGoogologist2009 coined gigadollaxul for this number, and it's equal to \(200\$[0][0][0][0]=2*2*2*2*200\) in Dollar function.[1]
- Each book has 1,312,000 characters.
See also[]
W.G. Bloch "The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges’ Library of Babel", 2008, 192 p.
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Sources[]
- ↑ Hayden's Big Numbers. Retrieved 2023-03-08.