Borges' narrator describes how his universe consists of an enormous expanse of adjacent hexagonal rooms. In each room, there is an opening in the floor to the hexagons above and … 展开

The story repeats the theme of Borges' 1939 essay "The Total Library" ("La Biblioteca Total"), which in turn acknowledges the earlier … 展开

The full possible set of protein sequences (protein sequence space) has been compared to the Library of Babel. In the Library of Babel, finding any book that made sense was almost impossible due to the sheer number and lack of order. The same would be true of … 展开

• Encyclopedia Galactica (Asimov)
• Akashic Records
• Infinite monkey theorem
• Law of truly large numbers
• Normal number 展开

Infinite extent
In mainstream theories of natural language syntax, every syntactically valid utterance can be extended to produce a new, longer one, because of recursion. However, the books in the Library of Babel are of bounded length … 展开

• Érik Desmazières provided etched illustrations for a 1997 edition of the short story, depicting the library as literally built in the shape of 展开

• Érik Desmazières – La Bibliothèque de Babel at Warnock.
• Library of Babel simulation by Basile. 展开