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Re:Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Sha... by akira2501 on Friday November 01, 2024 @06:01AM (#42015462)
It's sort of like calculating the probability of a hash collision. The speed at which the monkeys type is also a factor.
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Re:Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Sha... by andrewstuart on Friday November 01, 2024 @06:40AM (#42015623)
How fast do monkeys type?
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Re:Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Sha... by amelius on Friday November 01, 2024 @11:11AM (#42017680)
Just give them a typewriter that records the position of where the key is pressed to a million bits accuracy, convert that to a series of ASCII characters (through a hash function), and the monkeys will type very fast.
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Re:Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Sha... by chasd00 on Friday November 01, 2024 @01:09PM (#42019179)
That’s really funny. Give the keyboard a big enough buffer to hold Shakespeare and flush it to the screen on startup. With infinite monkeys and therefore infinite buffers the monkeys don’t even have to type!
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Re:Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Sha... by KineticLensman on Friday November 01, 2024 @11:17AM (#42017732)
>> For the timescale calculations, we assume that a monkey typist presses one key per second every second of the day
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