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> if given an infinite amount of time, a monkey pressing keys on a typewriter would eventually write the complete works of William Shakespeare Amazing that it
by yawpitch 2y ago
> if given an infinite amount of time, a monkey pressing keys on a typewriter would eventually write the complete works of William Shakespeare
Amazing that it took this long for Australian mathematics to prove that finite < infinite.
- defrost 2y agoUsual tale .. they waited for the Brits to get around to it .. and eventually did it themselves. eg. Here the BBC is late with the story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42004052 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42004052