11-01-2024, 08:14 PM
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-...akespeare/
For fun…https://youtu.be/Ngmf8G5xKas?si=I4WN5rwuZb8fsf2u
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-...akespeare/
For fun…https://youtu.be/Ngmf8G5xKas?si=I4WN5rwuZb8fsf2u