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April 29th, 2018, 04:27 AM | #321 |
Senior Member Joined: Nov 2015 From: Stratosphere Posts: 700 Likes: 288 I Ride: Whatever I can steal | Lol! From Wiki: The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. In fact, the monkey would almost surely type every possible finite text an infinite number of times. However, the probability that monkeys filling the observable universe would type a complete work such as Shakespeare's Hamlet is so tiny that the chance of it occurring during a period of time hundreds of thousands of orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe is extremely low (but technically not zero). In this context, "almost surely" is a mathematical term with a precise meaning, and the "monkey" is not an actual monkey, but a metaphor for an abstract device that produces an endless random sequence of letters and symbols. One of the earliest instances of the use of the "monkey metaphor" is that of French mathematician Émile Borel in 1913,[1] but the first instance may have been even earlier. Variants of the theorem include multiple and even infinitely many typists, and the target text varies between an entire library and a single sentence. Jorge Luis Borges traced the history of this idea from Aristotle's On Generation and Corruption and Cicero's De natura deorum (On the Nature of the Gods), through Blaise Pascal and Jonathan Swift, up to modern statements with their iconic simians and typewriters. In the early 20th century, Borel and Arthur Eddington used the theorem to illustrate the timescales implicit in the foundations of statistical mechanics. |
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April 29th, 2018, 05:19 AM | #322 |
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April 29th, 2018, 09:45 AM | #323 |
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April 29th, 2018, 05:37 PM | #324 |
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Kropo is ok. He just didnt write what some on here wanted him too. Its a shame he doesnt post here any more. I read a Danny Kent article on his site .... I dont think its too harsh. |
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April 29th, 2018, 05:42 PM | #325 |
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April 29th, 2018, 06:34 PM | #326 |
Senior Member Joined: Jun 2007 From: Norah Head Posts: 9,436 Likes: 978 I Ride: Many | Surely you mean "I have no idea what you are talking about" or " you have no idea what Im talking about". You are saying you are telepathically linked to my brain and somehow I misspoke or mistyped my own thoughts. We havent had too many psychics on here before ... only 1 who thought he was .. but alas .... I assume you disagree with me. |
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April 29th, 2018, 07:08 PM | #327 | |
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April 29th, 2018, 09:15 PM | #328 |
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April 30th, 2018, 09:15 AM | #329 |
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April 30th, 2018, 10:01 AM | #330 |
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