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

  • 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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        243 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.