11-02-2024, 12:44 AM
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…