Rooms filled with hexagonal galleries from "summary" of The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel by William Goldbloom Bloch
In the infinite library imagined by Borges, each bookworm explores a universe of books that are not just stacked away in shelves but are rather housed in a vast complex of interconnected hexagonal rooms. These rooms constitute the library's architecture, with each room containing an entrance, alcove, ventilation shaft, and at least one hexagonal chamber. The walls are lined with bookshelves filled with books that contain all possible combinations of 25 characters, including spaces, commas, and periods. The books are organized in such a way that every possible text of a certain length is housed somewhere within the library's walls. The hexagonal shape of the rooms is significant as it allows for an efficient use of space, maximizing the number of rooms that can be connected while minimizing the distance between them. The galleries within each room further enhance the library's capacity to hold an unimaginable number of book...
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