• @mvirts
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    61 year ago

    An infinite number of monkeys would create it immediately

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      No, since every monkey would take a while to finish one book. Even if infinite monkeys would do it at thr same time.

      And, if we digg deeper, even infinitly many monkeys could fail in one go, if infinitly many would write the same book and only finitely many another, then they could create only shit books. And as this could happen almost every time, you’d better have an infinite amount of time as well.

      • @mvirts
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        21 year ago

        Na, you just need to find the range of monkeys that each wrote one character of the book on the first keystroke. It’s infinity, as long as the monkeys are random, it’s out there somewhere.

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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    Okay! I have simulated a monkey typing for an eternity, and I have the entire text. It contains an answer to all questions that can be answered using the letters, numbers and symbols on a typewriter!

    Give me a search query and I will get you the results.

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        Your search query was found in the database.
        Number of results: ∞
        Results in alphabetical order:
        
        The square of pie (rounded at the sextillions place)AAAAAAAA[...]
        The square of pie (rounded at the sextillions place)AAAAAAAA[...]
        The square of pie (rounded at the sextillions place)AAAAAAAA[...]
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          • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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            31 year ago

            Seriously, what were you expecting?

            The actual answer is Math.round(Math.PI**2,-21), which equals 0, and in fact, the monkey did write

            The square of pie (rounded at the sextillions place) is 0.
            

            Maybe you weren’t looking deep enough?

  • @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    This is what Elon really had in mind when he bought Twitter.

    And all the remaining monkeys have really only written a book that reads like mien kampf, but has more to do with throwing poop at one another than anything.

  • @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    Don’t ask me why I know that but when you really put a monkey in one room with a typewriter, the monkey will look at it, type one letter repeatedly and leave. No Shakespeare play, no nothing. I’m sorry to disillusion you.

  • AItoothbrush
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    11 year ago

    Ig ik how harry potter was written(its not the best but pretty good)