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Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds (phys.org)
submitted 1 month ago by VantaBrandon to c/technology
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The question that everyone has been dying to know has been answered. Finally! What will scientists study next?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

infinite amount of monkeys could produce infinite amount of information, i dont see the point

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The original thought experiment had to do with playing around with infinity, which is a whole field of mathematics with a lot of crossover. It raises questions like whether we can assume any fixed-length sequence of digits can be found somewhere in the mantissa of a given irrational number (say, π).