irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee to Internet is Beautiful@lemm.eeEnglish · 3 days agoEvery UUIDeveryuuid.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1147arrow-down13cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1144arrow-down1external-linkEvery UUIDeveryuuid.comirelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee to Internet is Beautiful@lemm.eeEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square31fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarethreelonmusketeersMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-23 days agoHow many bytes is the Library of Babel? Petabytes? Exabytes? Zettabytes?
minus-squareirelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoI’d guess its infinite.
minus-squareboolylinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-23 days agoThe specifications described in Borges’ original short story implies there are 25^1312000 books, which is unfathomably large but technically still finite.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeersMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·3 days agoIf it’s stored on a server somewhere, it can’t be infinite.
minus-squareirelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·3 days agoIts generated dynamically based on a seed string.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeersMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·2 days agoHuh, if it’s dynamically generated, would the storage required to host website grow as visitors search for more strings?
minus-squarebane_killgrind@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoIt doesn’t generate and save it, it generates it again at the same position.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeersMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoIn that case, wouldn’t the “address” for the position of the string in the library be as long as the string itself?
minus-squareRedjard@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoYes, it’s a fancy way to turn a link containing encoded text into that text.
minus-squareirelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agohttps://libraryofbabel.info/book.cgi?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-w3-s1-v11:1 This is a link to a book. Its much larger than the url, thats just the seed to generate it.
minus-squarefilcuk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 days agoAddress is the seed. It’s not stored. Try visiting it to see how it works.
How many bytes is the Library of Babel?
Petabytes? Exabytes? Zettabytes?
I’d guess its infinite.
The specifications described in Borges’ original short story implies there are 25^1312000 books, which is unfathomably large but technically still finite.
If it’s stored on a server somewhere, it can’t be infinite.
Its generated dynamically based on a seed string.
Huh, if it’s dynamically generated, would the storage required to host website grow as visitors search for more strings?
It doesn’t generate and save it, it generates it again at the same position.
In that case, wouldn’t the “address” for the position of the string in the library be as long as the string itself?
Yes, it’s a fancy way to turn a link containing encoded text into that text.
https://libraryofbabel.info/book.cgi?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-w3-s1-v11:1
This is a link to a book. Its much larger than the url, thats just the seed to generate it.
Address is the seed. It’s not stored. Try visiting it to see how it works.