Etymology

Borgesian library

Today it means: A fictitious vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format, including books resulting from random concatenation of letters, spaces and punctuation marks. Full definition →

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The story

After Jorge Luis Borges, who wrote about such a library in his short story The Library of Babel (1941).

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