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There Is A Special Department Of Hell For Students Of Probability.
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There is a special department of Hell for students of probability. In it there
are an infinite number of monkeys and typewriters. Whenever a monkey walks
across a typewriter it types, purely by chance, one of Shakespeare's sonnets.
Related:
Infinite-Monkey Theorem: n. "If you put an {infinite} number of monkeys at typewriters, eventually one will bash out the script for Hamlet.
(One may also hypothesize a small number of monkeys and a very long period of time....
Infinite-Monkey Theorem n. "If you put an infinite number of monkeys at typewriters, eventually one will bash out the script for Hamlet.
(One may also hypothesize a small number of monkeys and a very long period of time....
You could be replaced by an infinite number of monkeys.
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W.
Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. -- Bill Hi...
O father, what a hell of witchcraft lies In the small orb of one particular tear.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Sonnets & other Poetry -- A Lover's Complaint, Line 288...
Ford, there's an infinite number of monkeys out here who wish to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked up.
-- Arthur De...
I've got the world's oldest typewriter... It types in pencil.
For those who didn't make it to page 249 of "The Anthropic Cosmological Principle" by John Barrow and Frank Tiple
I quote "In a randomly infinite Universe, any event occurring here and now with finite probability must be occurring simultaneously at an infinite number of other sites in the Universe....
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they MIGHT write all the books in the British museum.
-- Sir Arthur Eddingto...