Their assumptions must be wrong. They do not account for the most basic principle of the universe, "the show must go on."
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If a tree folds in the forest and there's no one there to hear it does it make a sound?
For this experiment scientists recruited Gilbert, no one really pays much attention to him, and it's assumed the universe won't either.
The author is so stupid, the monkey will of old age long before the universe ends.
But first he will accidentally the whole thing.
Has He Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?
But.. we already did it?
Not with a typewriter, though.
I would place money on some enthusiast somewhere having typed up Hamlet on a typewriter just for kicks. Surely in the hundreds of years of overlap between humanity, Hamlet, and typewriters, it's happened once. I'd be more concerned with typos.
Use infinite monkeys.
As such, we have to conclude that Shakespeare himself inadvertently provided the answer as to whether monkey labour could meaningfully be a replacement for human endeavour as a source of scholarship or creativity. To quote Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3, Line 87: “No”.
To quote Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3, Line 87: “No”.
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An ape could though.
Let's use our braincells to fix real problems first. Like pants that don't stretch.
I feel like there has to be more to this problem than pure probability. We ought to consider practical nuances like the tendency to randomly mash keys that are closer together rather than assume a uniform distribution.
Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science?
And coffee breaks... or banana breaks... and unions!
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