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gknlje,vjclkmsqoeawjamwvqeo,btgqz,pkwpuifj every possible shortshort story, then
, along with every possible interoffice memo.posted by mogur at  pm on may   typ
e in something your love said to you once, in the strictest confidence, which yo
u swore never to reveal. and yet, there it is.posted by mogur at  pm on may   i 
was ready to call bs due to the impossible storage requirements, but this person
 is smarter than methe site doesnt store books on disk, and it doesnt create the
m as theyre requested then store those pages. but, it does always place the same
 page of text at the same location in the library.it does this by using a pseudo
random number generating algorithm called a linear congruential generator. in or
der to be able to produce every possible page of  characters, the prng requires 
a seed of about  bits  in base ten, thats a number with  digitswhen you request 
a page, the cgi does the following calculationsbook location  base ten random se
ed  random seed  output of prng  output of prng  page of textthe search function
 inverts each of these calculations page of text  base ten output of prng  outpu
t of prng  random seed  random seed  book locationposted by double block and ble
ed at  pm on may   favorites  im surprised it took so long to automate the infin
ite monkeys.posted by oneswellfoop at  pm on may   your name and the details of 
the most terrible and wonderful things you ever did are in there. so are the det
ails of terrible and wonderful things you never did.posted by double block and b
leed at  pm on may   can someone explain this to meposted by bleep at  pm on may
   theres a full explanation in the library itself.posted by segundus at  pm on 
may   favorites  bleep can someone explain this to meevery possible book of a ce
rtain number of pages, the vast majority of which are random gibberish. since it
s every possible combination, everything that can be written in a book of that s
ize is there. shakespeares plays, the story of your life, tomorrows winning lott
ery numbers. but its such a huge collection of information that finding things t
hat are coherent is essentially impossible. it would be impossible to store all 
of that information because it would take up the entire universe and then some. 
this person seems to have figured out a clever way to get around that limitation
.posted by double block and bleed at  pm on may   at some point id like to dig i
nto how exactly this was implemented...i suspect it would take a fair amount of 
effort to understand, at best, and more likely wind up being completely over my 
head. i mean, click here to generate a book full of random gibberish is somethin
g i could write myself. but the search function...that blows my mind.posted by u
osuaq at  pm on may   a title and a page number turns into a character tweet. an
d its already there, waiting for you to tweet it.posted by rifflesby at  pm on m
ay   favorite  one of my favorite things about this concept is that theres a kin
d of symmetry about the search for cobg.wipikioouhg gvbj.axbjjaodyefobfp.,zovdr,
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