Timeline for Given an infinite number of monkeys and an infinite amount of time, would one of them write Hamlet?
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| Jan 14, 2011 at 23:23 | comment | added | cdjaco | Apparently Hollywood is already halfway there, judging by their product. | |
| Jan 14, 2011 at 10:19 | comment | added | Kevin Cantu | No, just pay them minimum wage to write it out. Before they become smarter than us and destroy the Statue of Liberty! | |
| Jan 13, 2011 at 23:49 | comment | added | Ibby | @timur True; you would have to reproduce the exact conditions that lead to Hamlet it produce the same exact text at the same exact time. Or, as Carl Sagan put it, "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." | |
| Jan 13, 2011 at 5:11 | comment | added | timur | Even if you do that, why would they produce an exact copy of Shakespeare? I mean almost surely their history will be different than ours. | |
| Jan 12, 2011 at 12:54 | comment | added | mplungjan | What is the probability that I now read the word bonobo for the SECOND time today after a lifetime of never having heard it - ahh the internets... | |
| Jan 12, 2011 at 5:50 | history | answered | Kevin Cantu | CC BY-SA 2.5 |