Care to provide a proof? Seems obvious to me that the universe would experience heat death long before monkeys could recreate the works of Shakespeare. Just think of the possible permutations. We're talking 26 to the power of every alphabetic character in the collection of Shakespeare. And that's disregarding spacing and punctuation. That's an insanely large number. The heat death of the universe would come within a blink of an eye relative to the time it would take for monkey's to randomly chance upon the
Infinite (Score:3, Insightful)
Monkey keystrokes and infinite time does produce the works of Shakespeare.
So let's show monkeys a little more respect than comparing them members of Congress.
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Care to provide a proof? Seems obvious to me that the universe would experience heat death long before monkeys could recreate the works of Shakespeare. Just think of the possible permutations. We're talking 26 to the power of every alphabetic character in the collection of Shakespeare. And that's disregarding spacing and punctuation. That's an insanely large number. The heat death of the universe would come within a blink of an eye relative to the time it would take for monkey's to randomly chance upon the
Re: Infinite (Score:0)
You don't seem to grasp the concept "infinity".
Re: Infinite (Score:2)
You don't seem to grasp the concept "infinity".
It's a mathematical concept, not a description of the real universe.