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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by iso1210 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @04:56AM (#22421726)
> if you give a million monkeys a typewriter and wait a million years

You'll have faeces and dead monkeys everywhere.

Lets assume you have a million monkeys pressing 10 keys per second for 1 million years.

You'd get somewhere in the region of 10^21 letters, or

Lets ignore punctuation, numbers, capitals etc, and assume there's just a choice of 26 letters

You'd be insanely lucky to find "all the world's a stage" somewhere in there.

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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by knowmylimits on Thursday February 27, 2020 @08:43AM (#22433122)
He's just doing his take on probability not literally. That's like if I asked you: How many second are in a year?
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