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"Multiplying 17 billion by 18,718,157,355,362 gives us the expected number of years to produce all possible strings once: 318208675041154000000000, or 3.2e23. Thus, if we had 10^25 years, we'd be sure of getting them all. If we had 10^50 years, we'd get Hamlet's string a lot."

And how many years do we have between the formation of the universe and the first sentence in Shakespeare being written? Certainly not 10^25 years...

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[cracker]

And how many years do we have between the formation of the universe and the first sentence in Shakespeare being written?

Nobody has asserted otherwise. You simply misunderstood tortoises' original argument, and thus were wrong.