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gavinpc on Sept 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is Borges the 20th Century’s most important writer...

Nerd sniping: how many books are in the library of babel?

Here's a PDF:

http://www.cultureofdoubt.net/download/docs_cod/library%20of...

Wikipedia has calculations, if you want to cheat:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

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