The formula that writes all books!

“Theoretically, there is a formula or logarithm that will write all books ever written and ever to be written.”
That was the thought I woke up with in the middle of the night. I don’t know if it’s ever been calculated. I’ll look for it when I can find the time. But if you know of it, please contact me.

How it works:

  1. Assumption: We use the following characters
    • The standard letters of the English alphabet: 26.
    • The standard punctuation: 16
    • Limit the number of letters per word to a 45 maximum.
      This is actually not the longest word, but for calculation reasons, let’s ignore the chemical composition of titin since it would be 189,819 letters and takes 3 hours to pronounce.
    • The longest sentence ever written in literature is in Jonathan Coe’s The Rotter’s Club with a single sentence that is 13,955 words long.
    • We will write a fictional novel: The longest novel in the world is A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust which is about 9,609,000 characters long, so including letters, spaces and punctuation.
  2. Write formula (let’s see if someone can do it for me)
  3. Use the biggest computer ever built to perform it and spit out every book ever written and to be written.

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