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>>> And whoever said it was a theory in the
>>> first place? :-D
>> Actually there's no law of mathematics or physics which says that an
>> infinite number of monkeys will produce the works of Shakespeare (especially
>> given that the problem is incomplete: The amount of time is unspecified).
>
> That's what I was getting at... it's not really a theory, more a
> pop-thought-experiment. And a badly-formulated one, as you've pointed out.
More like, it's a precise mathematical statement, rendered casually as
"if you gave a monkey infinite time to randomly type stuff"... which is
rather less precise. And quite probably wrong in a number of ways. (For
starters, monkeys don't type statistically random text...)
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