UM-Bot Posted February 14, 2022 #1 Share Posted February 14, 2022 It is said that, given enough time, a monkey with a typewriter could reproduce everything ever written. https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/355519/could-a-monkey-really-write-the-complete-works-of-shakespeare 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted February 14, 2022 #2 Share Posted February 14, 2022 Well, I suppose given enough time, that any sort of random character generator could spit-put damn near any such stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlookerofmayhem Posted February 14, 2022 #3 Share Posted February 14, 2022 5 minutes ago, pallidin said: Well, I suppose given enough time, that any sort of random character generator could spit-put damn near any such stuff. https://libraryofbabel.info/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jethrofloyd Posted February 14, 2022 #4 Share Posted February 14, 2022 Maybe, when Elon Musk soon implants a chips in their monkey brains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HandsomeGorilla Posted February 14, 2022 #5 Share Posted February 14, 2022 are we at the point where we actually are taking these old, ridiculous phrases literally? "Known as the infinite monkey theorem, this age-old mathematical quandary has been debated for years" No... no, it actually hasn't been... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Posted February 14, 2022 #6 Share Posted February 14, 2022 40 minutes ago, HandsomeGorilla said: are we at the point where we actually are taking these old, ridiculous phrases literally? "Known as the infinite monkey theorem, this age-old mathematical quandary has been debated for years" No... no, it actually hasn't been... There are so many sayings or findings that could be construed as urban myths: we only use 1/10th of our brain, swans can break a mans arm, it is too cold to snow, Einstein's wife came up with his theories, Shakespeare didn't write his plays- all these are easily disproved just by simple observation or common sense. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gumball Posted February 14, 2022 #7 Share Posted February 14, 2022 (edited) It was the best of times it was the blurst of times. I don't care, I was the first to it. Edited February 14, 2022 by Gumball 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Occupational Hubris Posted February 15, 2022 #8 Share Posted February 15, 2022 6 hours ago, jethrofloyd said: Maybe, when Elon Musk soon implants a chips in their monkey brains. Maybe not.... https://www.wionews.com/technology/15-out-of-23-monkeys-die-in-neuralinks-trial-to-link-human-brain-to-computer-452959 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatetopa Posted February 15, 2022 #9 Share Posted February 15, 2022 "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war," comes from the original Klingon I believe. Don't know how Shakespeare was able to get hold of it in our pre-space travel era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vorg Posted February 15, 2022 #10 Share Posted February 15, 2022 I always thought that was a bunch of crap, and so did the monkeys. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myles Posted February 15, 2022 #11 Share Posted February 15, 2022 23 hours ago, UM-Bot said: It is said that, given enough time, a monkey with a typewriter could reproduce everything ever written. https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/355519/could-a-monkey-really-write-the-complete-works-of-shakespeare Nope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essan Posted February 15, 2022 #12 Share Posted February 15, 2022 Most monkeys only live for 20 or 30 years. So no. They would die long before they got the first word right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyS Posted February 22, 2022 #13 Share Posted February 22, 2022 Nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chiron613 Posted October 29, 2022 #14 Share Posted October 29, 2022 Yes. Given enough time, such a monkey (or computer, or whatever) would produce all the works of Shakespeare, the Bible, every book ever written... but it would produce incorrect versions of these works, as well as an enormous amount of pure gibberish. You'd have telephone books, with correct numbers, but also trillions of telephone books with wrong numbers; dictionaries with wrong definitions, and some with correct definitions. This is just simple math, permutations of the letters and words... Finding any sort of reasonable text among all the output would be like looking for a grain of sand in the Universe. It's there, but it's so utterly lost as to be useless. Also, as I said, you'll have an infinite number of wrong versions of everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chiron613 Posted October 29, 2022 #15 Share Posted October 29, 2022 On 2/14/2022 at 3:48 PM, HandsomeGorilla said: are we at the point where we actually are taking these old, ridiculous phrases literally? "Known as the infinite monkey theorem, this age-old mathematical quandary has been debated for years" No... no, it actually hasn't been... I've got a set of math books that are 50-60 years old, and among the many chapters is one discussing this topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chiron613 Posted October 29, 2022 #16 Share Posted October 29, 2022 On 2/14/2022 at 4:33 PM, Silver said: There are so many sayings or findings that could be construed as urban myths: we only use 1/10th of our brain, swans can break a mans arm, it is too cold to snow, Einstein's wife came up with his theories, Shakespeare didn't write his plays- all these are easily disproved just by simple observation or common sense. The Infinite Monkey Theorem isn't among those that are disproved, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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