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about 104677 books
This number is missing the exponent. Jonathan Basile's official "About the Library" page says the site contains about 10^4677 books, not 104,677 books.
Full reasoning
The article’s number appears to have lost its formatting. Jonathan Basile’s official About the Library page describes the site this way: it "contains all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 10^{4677} books." That directly contradicts the article’s plain-text claim of 104677 books.
The scale also matches the underlying combinatorics: 29 possible characters over 3,200 positions produces an astronomically large count, not a five-digit number. So this is not a matter of interpretation; it is a formatting/typing error that changes the meaning by many orders of magnitude.
2 sources
- About the Library
At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 10^{4677} books.
- The Library of Babel - Wikipedia
The website is said to contain "all possible pages of 3,200 characters, about 104677 books".