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.
Or any Joe Biden speech.
Why doesn’t the number of unique card shuffles end in a bunch of zeros? Factorials produce permanent zeros when you multiply by 10, 20 ,,etc. and also the 2 x 5’s.
My Great Grandmother had a black lab. She named it Nagger. Just substitute an i for the a, and you’ll have the real name of the dog.
Did your twin say it was BS too?
Well, why didn’t he make that clear? It’s okay then.
Sam Adams never drank refrigerated Sam Adams.
The Cleveland Browns would work in that sentence too.
A million monkeys and a million computers and you get the internet.
Or one monkey 10 minutes and you get a Joe Biden speech !
So the monkeys type the code , the hamsters power the computers, and the humans get all the blame?
Yes but the decision desk at Fox was able to call the state of Arizona for Biden within 10 minutes of the polls closing with the ultimate margin a week later purportedly .1% . Are you going to bet that won’t happen again?
My future wife and I saw a bumper sticker, “Does this condom make me look fat?” We were glad it was in a store as we could not stop laughing and we’re rolling on the carpet for about 10 minutes. The rest of store thought we were nuts.
The actual number is 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000
Ha!
How about this
The Detroit Lions have just won their tenth straight Super Bowl!
Or the Detroit Lions have defeated the Cleveland Browns to win the Super Bowl.
I typed many sentences but auto-correct keeps changing them into “you’re wasting your time”.
Ma’am the dogface banana patch
I don’t think that’s an exact quote so don’t quote me on that
It’s because of this arrow.....
Well Steve Martin already said it.
Ah - proof of prior knowledge and a rigged election.
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