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Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, BUT... - davester - 11-01-2024
The "infinite monkey theorem" has been debunked. The theory that a monkey typing randomly on a keyboard would eventually type out the works of Shakespeare has been proven to take longer than the heat death of the universe (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c748kmvwyv9o).
BUT...a monkey typing randomly can reliably turn out a Donald Trump word salad speech about once a week.
That is all!
Re: Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, BUT... - special - 11-01-2024
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Re: Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, BUT... - rgG - 11-01-2024
I never believed that anyway.
However, I would take the monkey over the orange jackass any day of the week
Re: Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, BUT... - Wags - 11-01-2024
That’s degrading to monkeys
Re: Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, BUT... - Diana - 11-01-2024
Wags wrote:
That’s degrading to monkeys
This, we must save the monkeys!
Re: Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, BUT... - PeterB - 11-01-2024
An oldie but goodie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imiX4Mv63-8
Re: Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, BUT... - DeusxMac - 11-01-2024
The way I originally heard it was…
With an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters, one of them will type the works of Shakespeare.
Not the same calculation, and a cursory web search would indicate that at least some others have heard it as well.
https://owlcation.com/stem/Borels-Law-of-Probability
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Monkey_typewriter_theory
https://mindmatters.ai/2019/09/why-cant-monkeys-typing-forever-produce-shakespeare/
For fun…https://youtu.be/Ngmf8G5xKas?si=I4WN5rwuZb8fsf2u
Re: Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, BUT... - SteveG - 11-01-2024
davester wrote:
The "infinite monkey theorem" has been debunked. The theory that a monkey typing randomly on a keyboard would eventually type out the works of Shakespeare has been proven to take longer than the heat death of the universe (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c748kmvwyv9o).
BUT...a monkey typing randomly can reliably turn out a Donald Trump word salad speech about once a week.
That is all!
new version of old, old, old joke
Re: Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, BUT... - DeusxMac - 11-02-2024
Steve G. wrote:
[quote=davester]
The "infinite monkey theorem" has been debunked. The theory that a monkey typing randomly on a keyboard would eventually type out the works of Shakespeare has been proven to take longer than the heat death of the universe (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c748kmvwyv9o).
BUT...a monkey typing randomly can reliably turn out a Donald Trump word salad speech about once a week.
That is all!
new version of old, old, old joke
Old, but not a “joke” per se…
“One of the earliest instances of the use of the "monkey metaphor" is that of French mathematician Émile Borel in 1913, but the first instance may have been even earlier…