VantaBrandon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoTyping monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study findsphys.orgexternal-linkmessage-square198fedilinkarrow-up1595arrow-down148file-text
arrow-up1547arrow-down1external-linkTyping monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study findsphys.orgVantaBrandon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square198fedilinkfile-text
The question that everyone has been dying to know has been answered. Finally! What will scientists study next?
minus-squareCeeBee_Eh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoBasically nothing is ever truly zero
minus-squareNightwatch Admin@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·6 days agoSomeone wiser than me already said that it already has happened: 1 ape did, in fact, write the complete works of Shakespeare.
minus-squareCommanderCloon@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoApes are monkeys though, just like we’re apes and birds are dinosaurs
minus-squarescarabic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoWe are apes and birds are dinosaurs, but monkeys and apes are distinct categories under primates so no, apes are not monkeys.
minus-squareNightwatch Admin@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·6 days agoFair enough. I wouldn’t want to insult the Librarian.
minus-squareCryophilia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoThe probability of lots of things is zero. The probability of a monkey typing a Chinese character on an English keyboard is zero. Similar idea: there are an infinite amount of numbers between zero and one, but none of those numbers is two.
Basically nothing is ever truly zero
Someone wiser than me already said that it already has happened: 1 ape did, in fact, write the complete works of Shakespeare.
ape != monkey
apes ⊂ monkeys, actually.
monkey c monkey do
Apes are monkeys though, just like we’re apes and birds are dinosaurs
We are apes and birds are dinosaurs, but monkeys and apes are distinct categories under primates so no, apes are not monkeys.
Fair enough. I wouldn’t want to insult the Librarian.
Ook
The probability of lots of things is zero. The probability of a monkey typing a Chinese character on an English keyboard is zero.
Similar idea: there are an infinite amount of numbers between zero and one, but none of those numbers is two.
I am.
Hello “Zero”!