Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds

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• TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Two Australian mathematicians have deemed it misleading, working out that even if all the chimpanzees in the world were given the entire lifespan of the universe, they would “almost certainly” never pen the works of the bard.

  all the chimpanzees in the world

  infinite monkeys

  I’m glad they had fun doing some math, but this is not news, nor is the original saying misleading. With an infinite number of monkeys, a smaller-yet-still-infinite number of them would produce the works of Shakespeare. The reason this saying works is because of the concept of infinity, not some random finite number.

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  • toast@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Your argument sounds convincing, but given an infinite number of monkeys I could refute it

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  • pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You can write down an infinite amount of numbers without ever leaving [0, 1]

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    • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      No they couldn’t. They’d die before they finished.

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What part of “infinite” was unclear in the instructions?

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  • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The “in” part apparently.

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• GetOffMyLan@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If you actually had infinite monkeys it would be the first thing a very large (infinite) amount would type.

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• MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Kind of selfish of that monkey really.

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  • emuspawn@orbiting.observer ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds Maybe the monkey can be a little less of a dick, for science?!

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    • MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It could make a decent blockbuster though, hear me out:

      Trailervoiceguy: In a world on the brink of annihilation, one monkey holds the key to survival.

      Typewriter clicketyclacks and monkey ooh-ooh-aahs

      Editor (played by award-winning method actor Daniel Day-Lewis): This a garbage, monkey, we can’t publish this! Earth is doomed!

      *More clicketyclacks *

      Trailervoiceguy: This summer, the question is…

      Trailer horns

      Trailervoiceguy: To be…

      Louder trailer horns

      Trailervoiceguy: … or not…

      Very loud trailer horns

      Trailervoiceguy: TO MONKEY!

      Silence, then slowmotion monkey noises somehow

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• kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  We already had a monkey write Shakespeare. His name was William Shakespeare.

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  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    An ape *

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    • Pothetato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      All apes are monkeys but not all monkeys are apes. Perchance.

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• ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  i think that milestone has already been achieved – at least in terms of the expected quality of the final manuscript.

  have you read the da vinci code?

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  • we are primates

  • one already wrote shakespeare

  I call false on the findings

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