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The OP is right: for any T, however large, you won't be guaranteed that you will get hamlet from a monkey. I don't understand what you mean by the law of large
by cdavid 16y ago
The OP is right: for any T, however large, you won't be guaranteed that you will get hamlet from a monkey.
I don't understand what you mean by the law of large numbers not being the law of infinite: the theorem states the limit of a certain series of random variables, that's by definition about what happens when the number of random variables goes to infinity.
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- iwwr 16y agoOK, not guaranteed, but certain within high levels of confidence. Still, with an infinite monkeys you can get all that in an instant.
- Sandman 16y agoNot in an instant - a monkey still needs some amount of time to write Hamlet.
- iwwr 16y agoI mean, an infinite monkeys would need a small (approaching zero) amount of time. An alternate way to say it: "An infinite, ordered set of monkeys each pressing exactly one key would produce the entire works of Shakespeare in at least one uninterrupted string that preserves that order."