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A surprising history of the index

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The Library of Alexandria

i was surprised to read about in your book is the library of alexandria. There's kind of an element on an index there, before it does a book. How does that work? Well, that's a really good question. The library of a lexandria er is vast. It's really the sort of e a version of big data. Possibly half a million books there. And when i say books, i mean scrolls. Now, that's really difficult to navigate. You don't need a complex navigation system,. When you have something that you can store in your memory. But when you have data that’s too big to really sort of conceptualize, then

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