▲ 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
[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (3 children) But arent there infinite monkeys? You should have already seen it written an infinite amount of times in 892 trillion years permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago As written this guy only has one monkey. permalink fedilink source parent [–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago Perhaps it's in the monkey's psychology that they'd never hit the keys that much before just destroying it all. They're a pretty poor pick for a random value generator. permalink fedilink source parent [–] kholby@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago Not necessarily. There are an infinite number of positive numbers, but -13 will never be one of them. Ergo, even with infinite possibilities, you still may not see a particular combination (even if it does fit the criteria; my metaphor is imperfect). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago As written this guy only has one monkey. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago Perhaps it's in the monkey's psychology that they'd never hit the keys that much before just destroying it all. They're a pretty poor pick for a random value generator. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kholby@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago Not necessarily. There are an infinite number of positive numbers, but -13 will never be one of them. Ergo, even with infinite possibilities, you still may not see a particular combination (even if it does fit the criteria; my metaphor is imperfect). permalink fedilink source parent