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Yeah, that’s why we need at least… two of them.

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the paper used the entire population (200 thousand) and would take some 10 ^ 10 ^ 7 heat deaths of the universe

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It could happen the very first time a monkey sat down at a typewriter. It’s just very unlikely.

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from the wiki article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem

If there were as many monkeys as there are atoms in the observable universe typing extremely fast for trillions of times the life of the universe, the probability of the monkeys replicating even a single page of Shakespeare is unfathomably small.

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7 points

ok so the monkeys need to type faster

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And we need more of them!

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Let’s put them in open spaces in offices and micro-mananage then, that’ll work.

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Irrelevant. The heat death of the universe is a constraint unrelated to the premise of the original problem.

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I don’t think it’s a constraint, it’s more like a measuring stick to try to show how ridiculously long that time is

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We could breed monkeys to much higher populations.

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If we’re considering even chimps “monkeys”, there’s already eight billion of them, I think that’s enough.

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