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Re:Library of Babel by recursive on Sunday May 03, 2015 @02:44PM (#9482462)
Yes, even then.

Sure "1" and "2" are pretty short. And even "57834573495879436129386943" is pretty short.

But the average link would have so many digits, I couldn't post it in this comment.

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Re:Library of Babel by jonotrain on Sunday May 03, 2015 @03:08PM (#9482558)
The bookmarks would only need to map to the book locations - you would only need sufficient values for the number of bookmarked pages, not the entire range of possibilities.
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