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To: SamAdams76
There are only a relative few real numbers that are of interest to mathematicians. Sure, there are an infinite number of them, but the percentage of interesting numbers pales in comparison to those composed of random digits.

If there are an infinite number of sentences that can be created with our alphabet then it is probably the case that quadrillions of monkeys each typing at a thousand words a minute will never type out even one Shakespeare play or even sonnet. There are just too many other nonsense sequences they could type instead.

33 posted on 05/01/2022 11:40:38 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

No matter the number of monkeys, they’d destroy the typewriters before bothering to make one keystroke.


42 posted on 05/01/2022 1:22:44 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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