Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem

Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  But arent there infinite monkeys? You should have already seen it written an infinite amount of times in 892 trillion years

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  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    As written this guy only has one monkey.

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Perhaps it’s in the monkey’s psychology that they’d never hit the keys that much before just destroying it all. They’re a pretty poor pick for a random value generator.

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  • kholby@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Not necessarily. There are an infinite number of positive numbers, but -13 will never be one of them. Ergo, even with infinite possibilities, you still may not see a particular combination (even if it does fit the criteria; my metaphor is imperfect).

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