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I don't think an infinite amount of monkeys with an infinite amount of time are guaranteed to write a work of Shakespeare. If they acted completely randomly it
by paddim8 3y ago
I don't think an infinite amount of monkeys with an infinite amount of time are guaranteed to write a work of Shakespeare. If they acted completely randomly it would be, but they don't. They're monkeys. They follow certain behavioural patterns. Just because they have an infinite amount of time doesn't mean they're going to try everything there is to try.
- sn0wf1re 3y agoIt's a theorem. And yes, it requires the monkeys to be random. And yes, it was tested with monkeys and the results were mainly the letter 's' repeated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
- brookst 3y agoReally all this proves is that if you had infinite Shakespeares and infinite time, one of them would write his complete works using only the letter 's'.
- oneshtein 3y agoI have random number generator which produces exact copy of a work of Shakespeare every time when I call it. '-)
- mwcremer 3y agoAs you note, the real issue here is that the problem is poorly framed. Let's instead consider spherical monkeys in a vacuum...