“That took the simulated monkeys 42,162,500,000 billion billion monkey years. The entire works of Shakespeare, it’s fair to say, would take a long time.”
So 42,162,500,000 billion billion monkeys could get it done in just a year. What’s the problem? Infinity is a big number.
The closest they came was a monkey who typed, “To be or not to be, that is the grzzbryt!
I thought this was going to be an explanation for the final season of Game of Thrones. I guess it still could be.
They could write for CNN.
Who pays these charlatans’ paychecks?
Idiocy. And not science.
I thought I read somewhere somebody actually gave a bunch of monkeys a bunch of typewriters, and what they got was mostly monkeys defecating all over the typewriters, and when they actually did any typing, what they mostly produced was strings of the same letter over and over again.
And there is a finite number of 5 minute songs that can be played on a piano.
You cannot amass an infinite number of anything. You cannot reach the end of an infinite series, because that’s what infinite means.
The monkeys would not be typing every combination of every letter, punctuation mark, and number. They would be hitting keys with no particular goal, at random.
Better to write a program to type every possible combination. For a page of text, it would take longer than the expected life of the universe, so get going! But it would be an easy program to write. However, once you start it, don’t hang around waiting for it to end. Will it actually create the works of Shakespeare? We’ll never know, because there is no way to ever reach the end of an infinite series.
Bob Newhart had a bit where he played a researcher doing this very thing.
At least we know that this universe is possible. I bumped my head against it yesterday.
However, the researchers did find that within 20 minutes a team of chimpanzees could replicate Jill Biden’s dissertation and within 10 minutes more, greatly improve it.
Some use the same principle to argue the universe came into existence as a random quantum fluctuation. A response was the Botzman Brain. The probabily of randomness creating a Botzman Brain is much more likely than randomness creating themuch more complex universe.
That’s not a monkey, it’s a Mandrill. One of God’s amazing creations.
Assume 26 letters, space, CR, comma, exclaim, question, and apostrophe is used for itself and double-quotes; no extra keys. Oh, So each stroke has a 1/32 chance of being correct for a given desired word/sentence. Multiply that by itself for each character. A five letter word is 1/32^5, which means out of ~33MM tries, you should see that particular word once. “This is a test sentence.” requires 1,329,228,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 attempts to statistically occur a single time.
And like I said, all of this assumes the monkeys only have the keys they need. Most keyboards have 75 to 100 keys, not just 32. And, some keys need a hold-shift and press other key (?,”,!), and I have no idea how to add the immense extra unlikelyhood of key combos. You’re probably now looking at overall chances of one in a googelplex, or even less.
I thought this was already done and Gay and Lesbian monkeys write school text books now………
Ironically they were able to write one of Biden’s speeches.