staplung 2 days ago

Fun. It's basically Borges Library of Babel[1] where each book is a 4K ROM!

If you do the math based on the specs given in the story (and crucially, you assume that each possible book appears once) you end up with a library several times larger than the observable universe.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

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ticulatedspline 2 days ago

https://libraryofbabel.info/ is inspired by that story and is a library of all combinations of 3,200 characters (well lowercase letters, space, comma and period)

techjamie 1 day ago

There's also a later implementation at https://libraryofbabel.app/ which has a search space of 1.3M characters. Though this does make it less easy to share them, since at that scale, the reference locations become very much unwieldy.