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| Jan 15, 2011 at 6:13 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Jeff Atwood | ||
| Jan 12, 2011 at 17:38 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | @Qwerky: I think you are interpreting the question too literally. That is one interpretation, but there are other interpretations less tied to physical reality. | |
| Jan 12, 2011 at 16:26 | comment | added | Qwerky | +1 The answer is no because the question is impossible. Given that the mass and age of the universe are both finite, it is impossible to have an infinite number of monkeys typing for an infinite amount of time. | |
| Jan 12, 2011 at 14:39 | history | answered | PearsonArtPhoto | CC BY-SA 2.5 |