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“The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges (1941)

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“The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges (1941)
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15-01-2026, 09:50 AM
Another interesting detail is: "[a book] made up of the letters MCV, perversely repeated from the first line to the last" - the most dramatic example of a hopelessly meaningless text has character conditional entropy equal to zero.
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RE: “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges (1941) - by MarcoP - 15-01-2026, 09:50 AM

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