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

  • Eager Eagle
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    5 hours ago

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

    • Nougat
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      274 hours ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          244 minutes ago

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

        • Nougat
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          234 hours ago

          … the probability of the monkeys replicating even a single page of Shakespeare is unfathomably small.

          But not zero.

        • @scarabic
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          33 hours ago

          So you’re telling me… there’s a chance!

          Sorry, I’m sort of lampooning comments like the one above and below you where people just can’t resist focusing on the possibility, no matter how ridiculously remote it seems. For myself, there’s a point of “functionally zero odds” that I’m willing to accept and move on with my life.

    • Rimu
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      54 hours ago

      ok so the monkeys need to type faster

      • Lvxferre
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        12 hours ago

        If we’re considering even chimps “monkeys”, there’s already eight billion of them, I think that’s enough.