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To: tortoise
Folklore is that a million monkeys typing on a million keyboards for a million years will produce the collected works of Shakespeare. - Southack

"That wasn't folklore, it was a clever pedestrian description of the theorem." - tortoise

That's what you're trying to say when you claim that useful software programs can just form on their own in a computer if you leave it on long enough. - Southack

"Yes, that is what I'm trying to say. - tortoise

Except that the MATH in the link on Post #310 conclusively disproves what you are trying to say...

316 posted on 03/04/2002 10:17:25 PM PST by Southack
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To: Southack
Except that the MATH in the link on Post #310 conclusively disproves what you are trying to say...

You know, I really can't believe that this has digressed to the point of us talking about mathematics that you should have learned in high school (at the latest). One divided by any finite number is NOT zero. The state of the universe is actually irrelevant to the mathematics by the way. Even if the universe had the lifespan of a fruitfly and the diameter of an orange, the mathematics would still be true.

Big hint: The universe does not define mathematics, but mathematics does apply to the universe. In other words, mathematics is not constrained by the universe we live in. And no I'm not going to prove the first assertion, as that gets real esoteric almost from the get go.

320 posted on 03/04/2002 10:31:14 PM PST by tortoise
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