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Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds (phys.org)

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The question that everyone has been dying to know has been answered. Finally! What will scientists study next?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (29 children)

the paper used the entire population (200 thousand) and would take some 10 ^ 10 ^ 7 heat deaths of the universe

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (18 children)

It could happen the very first time a monkey sat down at a typewriter. It's just very unlikely.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (17 children)

from the wiki article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem

If there were as many monkeys as there are atoms in the observable universe typing extremely fast for trillions of times the life of the universe, the probability of the monkeys replicating even a single page of Shakespeare is unfathomably small.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Weird how neither of those numbers are infinities. Almost like the numbers used are unfathomably small in comparison.

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