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[Grok]

"A million monkeys on a million typewriters will probably produce something that looks identical to an AOL chatroom."

Actually, you're wrong.  MIT, I think, did a study of that within the last year.  As it turns out, a million monkeys typing on a keyboard for a million years will produce a million years of the same frequency distribution of crap, over and over.

[BlazingKnight]

Once again the users (and moderators) have gotten off topic. Good job following your own rules.

[Hazard]

Once again the users (and moderators) have gotten off topic. Good job following your own rules.

It usually isn't smart to criscize clan members and moderators.

[Kp]

Once again the users (and moderators) have gotten off topic. Good job following your own rules.

My most insincere apologies for the inattention paid to your vitally unimportant question.

[BlazingKnight]

Apology accepted.

[iago]

"A million monkeys on a million typewriters will probably produce something that looks identical to an AOL chatroom."

Actually, you're wrong.  MIT, I think, did a study of that within the last year.  As it turns out, a million monkeys typing on a keyboard for a million years will produce a million years of the same frequency distribution of crap, over and over.

Exactly, it would look very much like an AOL chatroom.

And if you had infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters, you WOULD produce the entire works of shakespeare, and, in fact, the entire works of every author/programmer/musician/etc.

[Yoni]

There's an infinitely huge difference between a million and infinite...

[iago]

There's an infinitely huge difference between a million and infinite...

No, there's an (infinity - 1,000,000)ly huge distance!


And of course they're different, 1,000,000 monkeys would look like an AOL chatroom whereas infinity of them will be all the books/etc.  I recognize that difference

[Lenny]

Well not taking this too literally, monkeys are suppose represent randomness...

This randomness can produce anything, eventually.
Even the chat we are discussing now....

[Soul Taker]

There's an infinitely huge difference between a million and infinite...

No, there's an (infinity - 1,000,000)ly huge distance!


And of course they're different, 1,000,000 monkeys would look like an AOL chatroom whereas infinity of them will be all the books/etc.  I recognize that difference

Isn't infinity a concept rather than a number?

[Arta]

There's an infinitely huge difference between a million and infinite...

No, there's an (infinity - 1,000,000)ly huge distance!


And of course they're different, 1,000,000 monkeys would look like an AOL chatroom whereas infinity of them will be all the books/etc.  I recognize that difference

infinity - 1,000,000 is still infinity.

[iago]

Well not taking this too literally, monkeys are suppose represent randomness...

This randomness can produce anything, eventually.
Even the chat we are discussing now....

And AOL chatrooms don't?

and Arta/Soul Taker - I know that!