POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Weekly calibration : Re: Weekly calibration Server Time
6 Sep 2024 09:17:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Weekly calibration  
From: Warp
Date: 21 Apr 2009 14:37:21
Message: <49ee1261@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >   If all the monkeys press the key 'a', then obviously not.
> >   What forces any of the monkeys to press some other key?

> Randomness.  If you do an infinite number of trials and only get the 'a' 
> key, then your process isn't random, by definition.

  Then there must be some kind of law of the universe which forces at
least some of the monkeys to type something else than 'a'.

  The probability that all of them will press 'a' is zero, but is this
a "different zero" from the one related to choosing one value from a
continuous range?

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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