Why the infinite monkeys with the infinite typewriters wouldnt end up writing a Shakespeare play.
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Okay, people have answered this question already, but I just wanted to use this to illustrate a cool example of the law of large numbers, which suggests that the more trials you run and the more data you accumulate, the closer you get to the average.
The average number of letters in an English word is 4.5 letters.
Hamlet has 132,680 letters, split into 29,551 words
132680/29551=4.489 letters per word. That’s a deviation of about 0.25% from the average.
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