POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Weekly calibration : Re: Weekly calibration Server Time
5 Sep 2024 23:15:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Weekly calibration  
From: Bill Pragnell
Date: 20 Apr 2009 11:25:00
Message: <web.49ec9343b9c54b936dd25f0b0@news.povray.org>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> > 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.


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