Library of Babel

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• gonzalle1

  I think that it is possible to have a "method" for virtually indexing such a theorical "library"... I believe it is what they are doing here :
  calculate where, in theory, the search string should first appear.

  In other terms if such a library was build, this is, indeed, where the search string would appears.

  Of course, precompute and storing this library is impossible...

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  • of course, because then it would have to have all the versions of the same phrase with all possible typos, making unthinkable versions of the same thingmonospaced
  • there could, theoretically, be billions of versions of this one sentence alone, depending on errors or subtle differences that may have happenedmonospaced
  • And there are. Search for that sentence in the library and you will get about 500,000,000,000 resultsrabbit

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