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infinite monkey theorem

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  • #52
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    mackg wrote: »
    Right so, you go fuck some monkeys and come back and tell us how you get on.

    yes because that would make loads of sense :confused:


  • #53
    wonderfulname
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭wonderfulname


    28064212 wrote: »
    Depends on when they started and how fast they type
    Assuming you want the entire work written by one monkey, if they each smashed one letter in a fraction of a second everything written and to be written would be there to be read, just in a very inconvenient format, monkey one: i, monkey two: n, three: space, four: f, and so on until we find ourselves in fair Verona.

    Yey infinity!


  • #54
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    28064212 wrote: »
    Depends on when they started and how fast they type

    No it doesn't.. You either have one monkey and an infinite amount of time or you have however long it takes to write the passage and an infinite amount of monkeys. So maybe 20 seconds for a sonnet assuming the piece is so be written by one monkey.


  • #55
    28064212
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,828 ✭✭✭✭28064212


    Deleted User wrote: »
    No it doesn't.. You either have one monkey and an infinite amount of time or you have however long it takes to write the passage and an infinite amount of monkeys.
    Yes

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  • #56
    aidan24326
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    Not quite. You don't need infinite anything, either time or monkeys. With one monkey you'd need a very very very long time to produce the works of Shakespeare, but there's a difference between infinity and something that's just very big. In an infinite amount of time the monkey would not only type the works of shakespeare but every single combination of letters and words that's possible, and he'd do it an infinite number of times.


  • #57
    [Deleted User]
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    28064212 wrote: »
    Yes

    How many seconds does it take to write a sonnet and that's all the time you need with infinite monkeys.


  • #58
    wonderfulname
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭wonderfulname


    aidan24326 wrote: »
    Not quite. You don't need infinite anything, either time or monkeys. With one monkey you'd need a very very very long time to produce the works of Shakespeare, but there's a difference between infinity and something that's just very big. In an infinite amount of time the monkey would not only type the works of shakespeare but every single combination of letters and words that's possible, and he'd do it an infinite number of times.
    Yes but you can only say it with certainty when it is infinite, because only then does probability approach 1, it's the mathematically correct way of phrasing it.


  • #59
    tunedout
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 448 ✭✭tunedout


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    It wouldn't take a monkey too long to type "yore ma."

    In fact, I'm not certain that this hasn't been done already.

    by my calculation. if the monkey typed 2 keys per second for 2000 years without a break there would still only be a 28% probability he would have typed "yore ma."

    AFter typing for around 4200 years he would have been more likely to have typed "yore ma." than not.


  • #60
    28064212
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    How many seconds does it take to write a sonnet and that's all the time you need with infinite monkeys.
    Well, it depends on whether you want it all written by the same monkey. Assuming a (very generous) 60 wpm, it would take a little over ten days. If each monkey produces one complete work, it would still take 9 hours to write Hamlet

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  • #61
    Capt'n Midnight
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    wendell borton wrote: »
    The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.

    Now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true
    Not until
    after an infinite amount of time we'll know it's true or not.

    Rome wasn't built in a day

    Even Shakespeare(sp) took at least 24 years to come up with the goods.

    There weren't an infinite number of monkeys on the interweb back in 1988, there still aren't.


  • #62
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    wendell borton wrote: »
    The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.

    Now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true

    Eh... http://shakespeare.mit.edu/


  • #63
    steve9859
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭steve9859


    "Honesty is the best policy. If I loose mine honour, I loose myself".

    Aaaaargh....bloody stupid monkey....'slap'!!


  • #64
    MetalDog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 904 ✭✭✭MetalDog


    One monkey, one typewriter, one afternoon = The Twilight Saga.


  • #65
    marty1985
    Registered Users Posts: 788 ✭✭✭marty1985


    If you browse Boards long enough you'll suspect the monkeys are already out there with internet access.


  • #66
    starlit
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    Monkey see monkey doo!:p


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  • #67
    cyrusdvirus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭cyrusdvirus


    wendell borton wrote: »
    The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.

    Now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true

    well done.

    Congrats for reading and nicking my sig.


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