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It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times
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You stupid monkey!
Incoherent monkey screams
Statistically, there's the same probability of a monkey outputting this text than the original.
An infinite number of monkeys would create it immediately
No, since every monkey would take a while to finish one book. Even if infinite monkeys would do it at thr same time.
And, if we digg deeper, even infinitly many monkeys could fail in one go, if infinitly many would write the same book and only finitely many another, then they could create only shit books. And as this could happen almost every time, you'd better have an infinite amount of time as well.
if you have infinite monkeys but not infinite typewriters, you're also going to be rate limited
Na, you just need to find the range of monkeys that each wrote one character of the book on the first keystroke. It's infinity, as long as the monkeys are random, it's out there somewhere.
Excellent
If an infinite number of monkeys handed you an infinite number of books, how would you figure out which one is the one you are looking for?
Okay! I have simulated a monkey typing for an eternity, and I have the entire text. It contains an answer to all questions that can be answered using the letters, numbers and symbols on a typewriter!
Give me a search query and I will get you the results.
The square of pie (rounded at the sextillions place)
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Seriously, what were you expecting?
The actual answer is Math.round(Math.PI**2,-21), which equals 0, and in fact, the monkey did write
The square of pie (rounded at the sextillions place) is 0.
Maybe you weren't looking deep enough?
Don't ask me why I know that but when you really put a monkey in one room with a typewriter, the monkey will look at it, type one letter repeatedly and leave. No Shakespeare play, no nothing. I'm sorry to disillusion you.
so an infinite number of monkeys could, theoretically placed in an infinite number of random groups, have their key presses combined into one big central word processor, in a right order to formulate words that autocorrect could change into a beautiful stage play!
the odds aren't great, but probability says nothing truly has absolutely literally zero chance of happening unless the event is already over
This is what Elon really had in mind when he bought Twitter.
And all the remaining monkeys have really only written a book that reads like mien kampf, but has more to do with throwing poop at one another than anything.
hollywood's solution to the writers strike revealed
Ig ik how harry potter was written(its not the best but pretty good)
Ig ik how harry potter was written
A lot of it was directly lifted from a 1980s fantasy movie called Troll, including the child wizard orphan actually named Harry Potter.
Its called "AI"