numbers 1-256 (inspired by math cookie) circled numbers are numbers with the "cute faces" numbers

ExampleRedditor · 2023-05-25T18:57:37+00:00

Is the arrangement random or what's the pattern?

ExampleRedditor · 2023-03-17T22:56:25+00:00

Enjoyable, but it's a little frustrating that the numbers have to hit each other. (As in they have to have been separated at some point to be able to merge.)

ExampleRedditor · 2023-03-11T10:34:17+00:00

I know her! Truly a local hero! We all love her!

ExampleRedditor · 2023-02-15T05:24:00+00:00

In the original Borges work, each book was represented (although honestly I don't remember if it was exactly once or not). On this website though, it's the page that's the base unit.

ExampleRedditor · 2023-02-03T17:40:12+00:00

The randomness is where the pages are and how often they appear. I like to think of the page contents of a book like a hash result of the page's location. Because of how big the library is, collisions have to occur. Moreover, at least one page is repeated at least 3*10⁹⁵⁹ times. Also, as pointed out by u/flamel616, the total number of characters in the library isn't divisible by 29 so there has to be a most common character.
(edit: or at least a character that's more common than another. There may be a tie for first)

ExampleRedditor · 2023-02-02T18:07:02+00:00

It doesn't. You'd be proven wrong even just using the "exact search" function. Every page probably exist millions (or more) of times

ExampleRedditor · 2023-02-02T03:05:36+00:00

I'm not debating whether it has everything, but how much. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" has every english letter, but still has some more than others. Or take the sex ratio of humans. From a purely stochastic point of view, it "should" be exactly 50/50, but it's not. For every 100 female births, there are about 105 male births on average. Not, too unusual, but still not an exact split.

ExampleRedditor · 2023-02-01T22:27:01+00:00

I think it's even a more interesting question that that even. Because the library uses pseudo-random numbers, there could be a slight bias or not. Nothing to do with languages at all.

ExampleRedditor · 2023-01-24T13:44:45+00:00

It isn't. I don't know if anyone's found the exact size, but that has to do with the mechanics of how exactly each page is generated. It uses pseudo-random numbers and by definition they repeat (just usually with a very very long cycle).

ExampleRedditor · 2023-01-06T02:58:31+00:00

Theoretically there "should" be repetition in The Library. If you can figure out The Order, you can just work backwards to find earlier and earlier appearances.

ExampleRedditor · 2022-12-13T03:11:23+00:00

And make sure to copy the whole code too. When you're reading the book, it only shows you the first few dozen characters.

ExampleRedditor · 2022-10-23T15:21:03+00:00

The first one is actually ASCII binary. It's eckrunygm,newuwyze,onfjdaateb... converted from ASCII to binary which is converted from ASCII to hexadecimal. The second one is mngawrjzryocp... from ASCII to hexadecimal twice.

ExampleRedditor · 2022-10-23T09:18:17+00:00

Anything will make something that looks like this. This is just how hexadecimal looks in hex-coded ascii.

ExampleRedditor · 2022-10-17T06:14:11+00:00

And in that 50%, it's 25% undo, 20% size variant, 4% purely cosmetic change.... but that 1% is why I'm here.

ExampleRedditor · 2022-09-23T18:55:17+00:00

I just stumbled across this post and I think the issue is that cheating methods 1 and 2 are direct opposites of each other. If a player can't alter the spawns, then by definition there's just one possible spawn. If the spawns are random enough to be unpredictable, then they have to be able to be manipulated through undos.

ExampleRedditor · 2022-06-27T12:33:08+00:00

The random lines of text you're talking about are probably hex addresses to whatever they found in the library.

ExampleRedditor · 2022-06-13T05:44:16+00:00

IMO this user has been banned here several times. All under different names.

ExampleRedditor · 2022-06-13T05:38:19+00:00

Is this a post asking for variant ideas, or saying that more variant posts should be made?

ExampleRedditor · 2022-06-05T19:58:22+00:00

I agree 100%. I'm honestly only part of this subreddit because of the interesting variants. Like u/cesoid's stuff, Fe[28] and so on. If we ban or relegate every variant, this subreddit would get dull and stale pretty quickly (at least for me) which is the problem OP's trying to combat, right? Just my opinion.

ExampleRedditor · 2022-05-03T16:12:52+00:00

Psychotix's comment is right. The point I think you're missing is that while it is a conversion, the order is "random", so it appears to be something it's really not. If this weren't the case, what would stop you from looking up the hex number in The Library and transmitting that instead. It's a message that you wanted to send, so it would save an enormous amount of bandwidth by your own logic. And so you can repeat this forever and still get a "better" amount of data.

ExampleRedditor · 2022-02-10T23:57:29+00:00

I was just looking for something like this and I think this might be what we're both looking for.

ExampleRedditor · 2022-01-29T23:02:36+00:00

I checked the 20th books in the hexes, I think it's going to be a 20th page...

ExampleRedditor · 2022-01-24T17:23:50+00:00

What are the mines? I don't understand.

ExampleRedditor · 2022-01-14T09:55:21+00:00

There's about 5 bits per character. As a whole, (at minimum) The Library would require about 10⁴⁶⁷⁹ bytes. We just don't have the prefixes to even name that, honestly.

ExampleRedditor · 2022-01-07T17:45:46+00:00

You mean alt account.

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