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On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
Except that if you do the calculations and make very rough estimates of
how long it will take for the monkey to get even the first 100 letters
of any of the plays, you will find that we are dealing with gadzillions
of lifetimes of the universe - even the very particles of which the
monkey are composed are going to fall apart long before any decent
semblence of a work of Shakespeare is going to appear.
We'll just have to make more monkeys then! ;-)
And replacing monkeys with super fast and reliable computers isn't going
to help - the kinds of times and reliabilities required are quite simply
beyond possibility. To get Shakespeare in this way is completely
impossible.
With infinite time to work with, it is completely impossible that it won't
happen (infinitely many times).
Mike
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