Posted on 04/21/2021 6:04:56 PM PDT by SamAdams76
It is said that if you sit a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, eventually, one of them will randomly type out William Shakespeare's "Hamlet."
(Let's just assume monkeys can be trained to feed paper into a typewriter and change out the ribbons from time to time.)
After all, there are only 26 letters in the English alphabet so surely after a million years of a million monkeys typing away, one of them will eventually get around to putting together the necessary keystrokes to type out "Hamlet."
I vehemently disagree with that hypothesis. In fact, if you put a hundred trillion monkeys at a hundred trillion typewriters and had them type away for a hundred QUINTILLION years, you would still not produce "Hamlet."
For even though their are only 26 letters in the alphabet, the possible combinations of those letters are nearly infinite. Consider the millions of books in English that have already been published. None of them are even nearly the same in the context of combination of letters.
In fact, I am going to now type out a random simple English sentence that has never been typed before:
The girl grabbed onto the back leg of the black dog and swung it about until it howled in anger.
There you have it, a simple English sentence of just 20 simple words that has never been composed before. Go ahead and try and prove me wrong. Go to your favorite search engine and type that sentence in. You will not find it anywhere. (Eventually the search engines will find this sentence in this Free Republic post but that DOESN'T count!)
Now consider a deck of 52 playing cards. People have been playing cards for hundreds of years. Yet go ahead and shuffle the deck and deal them out. You will have dealed a unique combination of cards that has never yet been dealed out before. That is harder to prove but yet it is.
Mathematically expressed, there are 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766, 975,289,505,440,883,277,324,955,367,923 possible ways to shuffle a deck of 52 cards. (Throw the jokers in and we will have to add many more digits.)
So it is safe to say that nobody has ever dealt out a 52-card deck exactly the same. Especially when you consider that only about a trillion (an infinitesimal fraction of the possible combinations) has ever been dealt out in the history of playing cards.
So go ahead, respond to this post with you own unique English sentence that has never been composed before. It's quite easy to do.
to not or be, doth maketh to be not.
“I’m Joe Biden and what I am typing has never been written before.”
Ironically, a sentence never seen before in the English language.
Allow me to try it with 8 words:
President Trump drank white Russians while playing poker.
This is the kind of "scientific research" that makes people believe in climate change. Just because it isn't on the internet doesn't mean it hasn't been done.
It was a black girl, married to a pro football player.
A trained and practiced stage magician can shuffle and deal a deck to where they know what cards will come up next. Though in general terms he is correct with fully shuffled deck, starting from a fresh (ordered) or controlled deck you can repeated or near similar results.
Your intentional misspelling of the word "until" does not give you Fair Use of my copywritted material.
You will be hearing from my lawyer.
I don’t know. There are cosmologist mathematicians who claim there are, in the billions of years of the universe, exact doppelgängers of each of us exist.
Of course, it’s absolute BS.
Adam Schiff told the truth. (5 words)
“President trump drank with White Russians while playing poker.”
New Steele paper excerpt?
“As a conservative on issues of gender identity I stand with Boy George and on issues of classics in universities I stand with Cornel West.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3952346/posts
Throwing feces is something a million monkeys could do in about 5 minutes and cover the works of most of the other authors.
But resist we much. We must, and we will much- about that- be committed.
Oh, wait. I just disproved your theory.
The Detroit Lions Have Won the Super Bowl!
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