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In which I type another sentence in plain English that has never been typed before (plus thoughts on infinity)

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.


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: areyouloggedin; vanity; whatisthisidonteven
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1 posted on 04/21/2021 6:04:56 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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Why would you have a girl mistreat a black dog? That's racis' jk
2 posted on 04/21/2021 6:09:23 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Jeffrey Epsteins last words "I am not committing suicide".)
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to not or be, doth maketh to be not.


3 posted on 04/21/2021 6:10:28 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
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“I’m Joe Biden and what I am typing has never been written before.”

Ironically, a sentence never seen before in the English language.


4 posted on 04/21/2021 6:13:02 PM PDT by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest hole; you had so much to offer, did you offer your soul?)
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To: knarf
Nice, you typed a unique sentence in just 9 words.

Allow me to try it with 8 words:

President Trump drank white Russians while playing poker.

5 posted on 04/21/2021 6:15:17 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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Go to your favorite search engine and type that sentence in. You will not find it anywhere.

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.

6 posted on 04/21/2021 6:15:42 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (Don't wish your enemy ill; plan it.)
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Then there are some things you never hear. That makes sense, some things you never hear. You never hear this: "Dad, you really ought to drink more." Here's something you don't hear too often: "Do what you want to the girl, but leave me alone!" Here is something no one has ever heard, ever. Ever. "As soon as I put this hot poker in my a__, I'm going to chop my d___ off." You know why you never that? Right! No one ever said that!

Which to me is the more amazing thing: no one ever thought to say that before tonight. I'm the first person in the world to put those words together in that particular order. First guy. Number one. Here's something you don't hear too often. "Honey, let's sell the children, move to Zanzibar and begin taking opium rectally." "Mom, mom I got a big date tonight. Can I borrow a French tickler from you?" -George Carlin
7 posted on 04/21/2021 6:16:05 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/believe.wav


8 posted on 04/21/2021 6:16:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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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."


9 posted on 04/21/2021 6:16:32 PM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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Why would you have a girl mistreat a black dog? That's racis' jk

It was a black girl, married to a pro football player.

10 posted on 04/21/2021 6:16:57 PM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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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.


11 posted on 04/21/2021 6:18:09 PM PDT by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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"The girl grabbed onto the back leg of the black dog and swung it about untill it howled in anger".

Your intentional misspelling of the word "until" does not give you Fair Use of my copywritted material.

You will be hearing from my lawyer.

12 posted on 04/21/2021 6:18:10 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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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.


13 posted on 04/21/2021 6:19:59 PM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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Adam Schiff told the truth. (5 words)


14 posted on 04/21/2021 6:20:56 PM PDT by Entropy Squared (The Rush to Chaos)
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“President trump drank with White Russians while playing poker.”
New Steele paper excerpt?


15 posted on 04/21/2021 6:22:04 PM PDT by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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“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://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/01/boy-george-derides-personal-pronouns-modern-form-attention-seeking/

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3952346/posts


16 posted on 04/21/2021 6:22:05 PM PDT by posterchild
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You forgot the aliens...
17 posted on 04/21/2021 6:22:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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Throwing feces is something a million monkeys could do in about 5 minutes and cover the works of most of the other authors.


18 posted on 04/21/2021 6:22:37 PM PDT by Starstruck ( Since I'm old I don't whether I'm senile or brilliant. Or happily both.)
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But resist we much. We must, and we will much- about that- be committed.

Oh, wait. I just disproved your theory.


19 posted on 04/21/2021 6:23:23 PM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: Entropy Squared

The Detroit Lions Have Won the Super Bowl!


20 posted on 04/21/2021 6:23:35 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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