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by chmod775 3 hours ago
If you're unsure what exactly this is supposed to be, just have a look here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

> [..] the inhabitants believe that the books contain every possible ordering of just 25 basic characters (22 letters, the period, the comma, and space). Though the vast majority of the books in this universe are pure gibberish, the laws of probability dictate that the library also must contain, somewhere, every coherent book ever written, or that might ever be written, and every possible permutation or slightly erroneous version of every one of those books.