Timeline for Given an infinite number of monkeys and an infinite amount of time, would one of them write Hamlet?
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| Jun 18, 2016 at 17:33 | comment | added | Vandermonde | In other words, all that matters is that the number of monkey-hours is infinite. | |
| Oct 28, 2013 at 13:47 | comment | added | Sawarnik | And if they are typing in a language, say C++, they might create a superbot. | |
| Jan 14, 2011 at 15:52 | comment | added | Dr. belisarius | @Orbling And the quotes are mostly harmless | |
| Jan 14, 2011 at 8:19 | comment | added | Orbling | @muntoo: Classic. Those books are so very quotable. | |
| Jan 14, 2011 at 8:17 | comment | added | Orbling | @belisarius: Flying whales at that, well falling whales. Not sure whales have the same knack for prose. | |
| Jan 14, 2011 at 6:08 | comment | added | Mateen Ulhaq | @Orbling @belisarius “Ford! There’s an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they’ve worked out” - Arthur Dent (chapter 9, H2G2 Bk1) | |
| Jan 14, 2011 at 3:44 | comment | added | Dr. belisarius | @Orbling With an infinite improbability drive you get whales, not monkeys :D | |
| Jan 12, 2011 at 16:04 | comment | added | vy32 | The problem is distinguishing the correct copies of Hamlet from the infinite number of copies with significant typographic errors --- for example, the one in which Hamlet and Ophillia create a time machine and run off together to America. | |
| Jan 12, 2011 at 8:46 | comment | added | Mike Scott | Fortunately, Hamlet is out of copyright. But they'll also write copies of everything that is in copyright, plus hexadecimal representations of binary files for every copyrighted movie, TV show, recording, etc., so they're still in big trouble. | |
| Jan 12, 2011 at 8:31 | comment | added | Anixx | I wonder whether they will be charged for copyright infringement in that case... | |
| Jan 12, 2011 at 3:41 | comment | added | Orbling | So infinite monkeys, no problem; finite monkeys, request infinite improbability drive for Christmas present. This poses the question, how do you count your monkeys? | |
| Jan 12, 2011 at 1:59 | history | answered | Bennett McElwee | CC BY-SA 2.5 |