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Yes this small study does not disprove that, given enough monkeys and enough typewriters, a shakespearean play will be produced. However, we need only look to
by abdulhaq 17y ago
Yes this small study does not disprove that, given enough monkeys and enough typewriters, a shakespearean play will be produced.
However, we need only look to the internet to see that the proposition is indeed false.
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoCute, but wrong (as you probably know). Even the size of the internet and all the drivel on it is infintesimally smaller than infinity. Ron Graham once told me that the problems we have in mathematics are caused in part by the fact that we only ever deal with small numbers, and he's the one who used Graham's Number. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grahams_number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grahams_number