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Well, with an infinite number of monkeys, it could happen in a finite time. As you say, this paper seems to miss the point.
by madaxe_again 2y ago
Well, with an infinite number of monkeys, it could happen in a finite time.
As you say, this paper seems to miss the point.
- akira2501 2y agoIt's sort of like calculating the probability of a hash collision. The speed at which the monkeys type is also a factor.
- andrewstuart 2y agoHow fast do monkeys type?
- amelius 2y agoJust give them a typewriter that records the position of where the key is pressed to a million bits accuracy, convert that to a series of ASCII characters (through a hash function), and the monkeys will type very fast.
- chasd00 2y agoThat’s really funny. Give the keyboard a big enough buffer to hold Shakespeare and flush it to the screen on startup. With infinite monkeys and therefore infinite buffers the monkeys don’t even have to type!
- KineticLensman 2y ago>> For the timescale calculations, we assume that a monkey typist presses one key per second every second of the day