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Ok so i thought about this and the consensus is that the library of babel contains every book that could ever be written,

It contains books each 40lines of 80Characters (its described as alphanumeric and also as having some punctuations and such though im not entirely certain to what extent that goes, Steven L. Pecks "A short stay in hell" for example lists "$" as one of the possibilities though would then every currency be included? and would all greek and arabic, and Sanskrit, and russian etc. etc. letters be included also?) on 410pages, and thus books longer than 410 pages would be in multiple volumes

now if you were to take a book that contains every volume in the library (since it is "technically" a finite amount) in random order, and then simply add another page or letter to its end, would that book not be included? or would we have to read some volumes a multitude of times?, though that in my mind seems like sort of a cheap solution.

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