Thursday, December 18, 2008

Monkeys typing on typewriters will NOT, given enough time, eventually type the complete works of William Shakespeare

I've done the math and, for all of the monkeys on Earth typing random letters full time, it would take roughly 1,000 times as long to type even the first page of a specific book as it would for them to evolve into humans (or some awesome typing animal, depending on the selective pressures). By this time, they probably aren't typing at random anymore. In fact, they may be so much smarter than Shakespeare, or any other human who's ever lived, that they consider Shakespeare to be ancient drivel.

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