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Re:Terrance Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts by seanhunter on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:02AM (#49518884)
He doesn’t say quadratic time, he says infinite time. He is talking about the probability of any given string arising from a random sequence of letters. As t goes to infinity that probability approaches 1.

The monkeys don’t understand hamlet. They just bash enough keys that it appears by chance (eventually). Hence “‘It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times…’ Stupid monkey. “

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Re:Terrance Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts by johnp314 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @09:14AM (#49521557)
Here's something to ponder. Assuming the Riemann Hypothesis is true, would that monkey type out a proof of the RH before it got to Hamlet? I guess it depends on if the proof can be expressed in fewer words than the word count of Hamlet.
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