The Library of Babel
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"The Library of Babel" is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges, conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain
English edition cover, with illustration by Érik Desmazières
Borges in 1967
Infinite monkey theorem
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The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys independently and at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the
The Library of Babel
…his own attempts to find some ultimate meaning to the library and humanity's existence within it. The story repeats the theme of Borges' 1939 essay "The Total Library" ("La Biblioteca Total"), which in turn acknowledges the earlier development of this theme by Kurd Lasswitz in his 1901 story "The Universal Library…
A chimpanzee probably not writing Hamlet
Thomas Huxley is sometimes misattributed with proposing a variant of the theory in his debates with Samuel Wilberforce.