The text of hamlet contains approximately 130,000 letters.
There are 96 characters on a typewriter (varies by model).
However assume you had a typewriter that was limited to 26 characters of the alphabet x 2 for upper and lower case plus comma, period, quote, exclamation mark, and question mark. That would be 52+5 = 57 characters.
Unlike the Deck of cards example, you don’t lose a character each time you type it. In the card deck example, each time a card is dealt there is one less card, thus leading to a formula that looks like 52x51x50.. or 52!
The typewriter formula would be 57^130,000. And that’s only if the monkeys truly type randomly. If they don’t, and experiments show they won’t, then odds will be much higher.
Only way to get the odds down is super intelligent monkeys. And we know that leads to no good.
Only way to get the odds down is super intelligent monkeys. And we know that leads to no good.
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That’s when we got the Democratic Party.