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[–] cactopuses@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Just thinking at a high level, an infinite number of monkies should hypothetically almost instantly produce Shakespeare (or at least as quickly as they can type)

Conversely, 1 monkey would eventually produce it given infinity time.

[–] ohshittheyknow@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So as weird as it sounds not all infinities are equal. For example there is an infinite set of odd numbers. That set will never include the number 2 though.

[–] figjam@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

Two is the loneliest number?

[–] RickyWars@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

OK but what if we had one monkey typing away for every real number between zero and one?

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