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Life & fun · February 23, 2024

Babel – browse every book that will ever be written using simple math

Browse, explore, and search a complete re-creation of Jorge Luis Borges

Babel – browse every book that will ever be written using simple math launched on February 23, 2024 with 6 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

What it does

The Library of Babel ( pdf ) is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges first published in 1941. It describes a library made up of an “indefinite, perhaps infinite” number hexagonal of rooms, each lined on four sides by a bookshelf of five shelves, each self containing thirty-two books. Each book is four hundred and ten pages of forty lines, each line of eighty characters. In the story, each book is made up of “twenty-five orthographic symbols” consisting of twenty-two lowercase letters, the comma, the full-stop, and the space. This website expands that to thirty-two symbols: the twenty-six lower-case letters of the English alphabet, the comma, full-stop, exclamation mark, question mark, hyphen,…from libraryofbabel.app

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