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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. Smart Monkeys by tabo-wan_kenobi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard," Isn't that how Microsoft developers work?

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  2. Quite obvious to me. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    The original observation used typewriters. If only they had used typewriters, I'm SURE we would be seeing some Hamlet right now.

  3. The age old question... by powerlinekid · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Mr. Burns:

    "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times?! You stupid monkey!"

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  4. Slashdot only needs one monkey by Dolphinzilla · · Score: 3, Redundant

    To post duplicate stories at a prodigious rate