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Yeah, I might be naive, since they're professional mathematicians and I'm not, but their conclusion feels like saying that they "tested" the concept of infinity
by petercooper 2y ago
Yeah, I might be naive, since they're professional mathematicians and I'm not, but their conclusion feels like saying that they "tested" the concept of infinity and found that it's simply unreachable. To me, the infinite monkey theorem is an abstract idea and not something that needs to be "tested", though it's certainly fun to run the numbers.
- sa1 2y agoThey didn't "test" the concept of infinity. They said that the results of the infinite monkey theorem are well known, and they wanted to see what happens in the finite case.
- InfiniteRand 2y agoReminds me of Archimedes calculating the number of grains of sand to fill the universe