▲ 928 ▼ Infinite Monkey Theorem (lemmy.world) submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world [M] to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 63 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago (1 child) The funny thing is, if you truly have infinite monkeys, it doesn't matter if they're using it correctly or not. There is an infinite amount of them. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] exasperation@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* Some infinities are bigger than others, though. Even if you have countably infinite monkeys typing countably infinite strings for an infinite period of time, there will be an infinite number of strings that the monkeys haven't typed, that will never be in the set of completed typed strings. Cantor's diagonalization proves it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* Some infinities are bigger than others, though. Even if you have countably infinite monkeys typing countably infinite strings for an infinite period of time, there will be an infinite number of strings that the monkeys haven't typed, that will never be in the set of completed typed strings. Cantor's diagonalization proves it. permalink fedilink source parent