Showing posts with label probability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label probability. Show all posts
Thursday, October 8, 2009
And Beyond?
You know nothing about infinity. You probably think you can add it to your argument in order to win, or add one to it to win even more. Nope, nothing about infinity, but I know everything about it (ha!) so allow me to enlighten you. There's this statement you might have heard before, that if an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters type for an infinite amount of time, then at some point they will produce the complete works of Shakespeare. This is an idea that comes from probability theory, and what infinity does to it. Because when you let the time line approach infinity then the probability that anything will happen approaches 1 (i.e. 100%). Therefore we could actually reduce the goofiness down to one monkey on one typewriter. Thus if Bubbles (yes I'm naming it Bubbles) types for an infinite amount of time then at some point it'll produce Hamlet. So on a long enough time line any damn thing can happen, anything.
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