phagmaier / libray-of-babel

Generating a library of all possible books

LIBRARY OF BABEL

DESCRIPTION

Generating a library of all possible books (in ASCII). I was reading about Kolmogorov complexity and I discovered something unintuitive about entropy and comlexity that I found interesting. I discovered that things that are vague or less specific have a lower Kolmogorov complexity than there specific counterparts. This code seeks to provide a silly example of this by generating a infinite library of all (almost) all possibl books that could be generated using the english language and printable ACII characters. As you can see from the code generating a entire (infinite) library is actually easier, smaller, and simplier than generating something like a particular book given that the book isn't absurdley small. Idea inspired by th Borges short story of the same name.

File Table

File	Descripton
main.py	Creates the infinite library

How to run

DO NOT RUN! It won't destroy your computer but it's an infinite library and computers tend not to handle infinities very well. But if you want to:

python main.py