joining a small outcast group of library wanderers who have only read the book containing "0" and refuse to read the other
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trapped in a much less interesting Library of Babel variant containing every single possible 1-character-long book which could be written using the binary digits 0 and 1
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the majority show violent incomprehension at our simple decision. why, why? it is a simple "1" I say, why not? though I have not read it, I do not deny that it is a "1". do you require additional validation from me?
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some of us do not want the "ending" "spoiled". some fully intend to read the "1" one day, under particular circumstances. when an enormous existential need is felt, perhaps. and/or when near death. some deny the "1" outright
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for me, to read the "0" was a horrifying instant. there are no other books. half of all possible written experience, over in an eyeblink
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there is another, smaller, outcast group of those who have read the "1" and, in whatever fashion, refuse the "0". these, I respectfully do not understand
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but I don't have the book-binding equipment, or the paper. and at any rate, I have yet to decide what binary digit I would put in it
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ah I too have been to
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Get in, loser, we're iterating over every 64-bit floathttps://gist.github.com/qntm/18f6c99e3f4b4f294af54463d0fbd161 …
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