0074 - the world is not made up of words (opens in new tab)

You may already be familiar with the mythical Library of Babel, but if you're not then allow me the honor of introducing it to you! The Library of Babel is a short story/thought experiment written by the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. Imagine there's a library that contains every book of 410 pages that could ever be written using the letters of the Latin alphabet. Each book has 410 pages, each has 40 lines, and each line is around 80 characters. Most of the books in the library are just ...