Why the infinite monkeys with the infinite typewriters wouldnt end up writing a Shakespeare play.
In: Mathematics
Because of probabilities. There is 44 keys on a typewriter, so there is 1 chance out of 44 that a monkey will press the first letter of Shakespeare. Then there is another 1 chance out of 44 that the monkey will press the second letter of Shakespeare and this keep going making the probability of the monkey pressing all the right keys in the right order. Of course, the probability of that happening rapidly become ridiculously low to the point of impossibility.
But it doesn’t matter that in reality the probability is so low that it would be practically impossible for that to happen, because if you have an infinite amount of monkey typing it’s gonna happen at some point. That’s what infinity is, if there is a probability of something happening, even if that probability is low, if you have infinite try, it’s gonna happen eventually.
Of course in reality we don’t have an infinity of monkey, so that just a funny little story to show you how probability and infinity work.
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