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While this project is clearly a joke and the article has fun with it, the statement It is also a practical test of the thought experiment that wonders whether
by schrototo 15y ago
While this project is clearly a joke and the article has fun with it, the statement
It is also a practical test of the thought experiment that wonders whether an infinite number of monkeys pounding on an infinite number of typewriters would be able to produce Shakespeare's works by accident.
is rather idiotic. Nobody "wonders" whether this'll work. Of course it'll work. It's a mathematical certainty. It just... takes a while.
- amalag 15y agoIt's a mathematical certainty that it will happen in an infinite amount of time, which is like saying it is infinitesemly possible or in layman's terms, impossible. They have reduced that infinite amount of time by having the works of Shakespeare at hand and then selectively choose the words that fit. Kudos to BBC for printing pseudo scientific dung from the so called scientific community.