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Six Monkeys And An Old Saw

Posted by timothy on from the hard-to-disprove-the-infinite dept.

Sayten241 writes "They say that an infinite amount of monkeys typing at an infinite amount of typewriters will produce literature greater than Shakespeare. Well, it has been proven that six monkeys and one computer will produce a computer that has been smashed with a rock, urinated upon, and four pages worth of the letter 's.' The end of the article states that scientifically this does prove that monkeys are more complex than random generators."

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  1. The researchers should have used pigeons by mintech · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It worked for Google and their Pigeon rank (TM) system.

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    Comment removed based on user account deletion