Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
Well you’re not supposed to just have one. It’s supposed to be a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters.
As well as a single monkey, they also did the calculations using the current global population of around 200,000 chimpanzees, and they assumed a rather productive typing speed of one key every second until the end of the universe in about 10100 years.
They did 200k monkeys, so a little overkill from your expectations.
What if the monkeys evolve to higher intelligence as time passes by?
You maniacs!
I’m still mad we are giving them typewriters instead of keyboards. Think of the arthritis!
pirat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I thought it was supposed to be an infinite amount of monkeys, since it’s known as “infinite monkey theorem”, but apparently, according to Wikipedia,
But, I think, as long as either the timeframe or monkey amount is infinite, it should lead to the same results. So, why even limit one of them on this theoretical level after all? The linked study seems to limit both, so they’re not quite investigating the actual classic theorem, it seems.