A new study reveals it would take far longer than the lifespan of our universe for a typing monkey to randomly produce Shakespeare. So, while the Infinite Monkey Theorem is true, it is also somewhat misleading.

The question that everyone has been dying to know has been answered. Finally! What will scientists study next?

  • reksasEnglish
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    2 years ago

    infinite amount of monkeys could produce infinite amount of information, i dont see the point

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 years ago

      The original thought experiment had to do with playing around with infinity, which is a whole field of mathematics with a lot of crossover. It raises questions like whether we can assume any fixed-length sequence of digits can be found somewhere in the mantissa of a given irrational number (say, π).