• Dharma Curious
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      1411 months ago

      Is this like the digital equivalent of a million monkeys with a million typewriters?

      • Glitchington
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        811 months ago

        Basically, except it’s indexed and searchable. Somewhere in those books, exists the phrase, “dharma curious updooted glitchington on lemmy” probably many times. But also “dharma curious hated glitchingtons post on lemmy” will also be there somewhere.

        • Dharma Curious
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          511 months ago

          Wait, it’s already there? I thought they were generating them currently?

          Also, it’s searchable? I didn’t notice that. Just hit random. Going to go check it again!

        • lad
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          311 months ago

          That statement may be false, a simple explanation is that if you make a number out of π by removing all 9s it will keep the properties of π being infinite and non-repeating but never contain 9.

            • @[email protected]
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              411 months ago

              PI is not proven to be normal number. It means that those infinite digits repeating may not have uniform distribution, so somewhere far away in PI you can start just getting 1s,2s and 3s for example.

            • lad
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              111 months ago

              The point is that just because π is infinite it isn’t guaranteed to have any combination of numbers in it

        • @FishFace
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          211 months ago

          This is equivalent to the assertion that pi is a normal number, which is not proven.

        • Dharma Curious
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          211 months ago

          Okay, cool! I had some fun looking for words in the pages. But if I understand it correctly, what we’ll end up with individual words surrounded with gibberish on the pages. You’re never going to get a page full of real words, right?

          • @[email protected]
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            311 months ago

            Every possible page is generated somewhere. I think there’s a checkbox on the search page that fills the rest of the query with spaces.

          • lad
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            211 months ago

            I haven’t looked at it yet but if u understand correctly you just have to search for a page where surrounding gibberish is also words. Probability plummets to zero fast, I’d guess

      • I Cast Fist
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        311 months ago

        I thought humanity was the “million monkeys with a million typewriters”

      • Captain Aggravated
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        311 months ago

        Yeah sorta. It’s apparently an algorithm that can produce every possible page of text, given a number. So it contains a staggering amount of gibberish, plus every page of every book that’s ever been written, and many wildly incorrect, many vaguely correct and one exactly accurate description of the circumstances of your death.