r/Showerthoughts • u/Vitolar8 ‎ • 10d ago

Speculation With just how many possible combinations there are, you probably say a never-before-uttered sentence every day.

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u/snailmail24 10d ago

https://libraryofbabel.info/book.cgi

except every sentence possible is already on this website

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u/Vitolar8 ‎ 10d ago

There is a reason why I didn't write "brand new sentence". The use of "uttered" was quite deliberate.

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u/gmalivuk 9d ago

It isn't already there in the sense of being pre-recorded, though.

Also there are grammatical sentences longer than any individual volume there and indeed longer than the total of all the volumes of the Library of Babel, seeing as there are infinitely many possible sentences and only finitely many in the Library.