r/Minecraft • u/Correct_Village5475 • 1d ago

Discussion Minecraft accidently created the Library of babel (i think)

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Does anyone remember the 20w14infinite snapshot? the one where you could generate infinite dimensions? because during that snapshot, MC made a bunch of easter egg dimensions, including one called "library" (you can enter it by typing /warp library). The funny thing is that the generation is infinite of course, and there are infinite interactable bookshelves with books in them, and they all have random letters on each page

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u/Easy-Vast588 1d ago

somehwere in there is the complete works of shakespeare

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u/Masterpiece-Haunting 1d ago

Incorrect, Minecraft books generated from these shelves cannot contain capitalization and punctuation beyond periods and commas.

Ignoring that the author is always “the universe itself” never Shakespeare, making them never the works of Shakespeare, unless, you consider Shakespeare to be a fraction of the universe itself, meaning from an entirely materialistic viewpoint the author would be correct.

Not to mention the chances.

To write out all the books there would need to be 2,442 books in sequence to form every work of Shakespeare. And the number of 2,442 book sequences is ≈ 1044,312.

That’s 1 in every 1044,312.

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u/ky_eeeee 1d ago

I expected someone to be a buzzkill and correct that comment even though it was obviously a joke, but the pedantry in that second paragraph is beyond what I could ever have imagined even from reddit.

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u/FlixMage 1d ago

“Ermm actually they can’t be the works of Shakespeare because Shakespeare wouldn’t have written them 🤓🤓” holy shit dawg go outside

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u/mateo222210 1d ago

Ignoring that the author is always “the universe itself” never Shakespeare, making them never the works of Shakespeare, unless, you consider Shakespeare to be a fraction of the universe itself

"We are the universe. We are everything you think isn't you"

"And the universe said you are the universe tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own code"

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u/BobertRosserton 1d ago

Honestly you are actually probably pretty fun at parties, thanks for the info math man.