Thread: Found a glitch in Maemo 5's terminal...strange characters
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lunat is offline lunat
2010-11-13 , 12:21
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#27
Originally Posted by Hootenholler View Post
If you had infinite monkeys, why would you need infinite time? Surely if you want to reproduce the works of Shakespeare, you would only need exactly as much time as it takes one monkey to type them out at a constant speed from start to finish without making mistakes.
thats simple:
1. zaphod beeblebrox doesn't care about what they have to tell so they have to wait for an infinite amount of time.
2. for real: the probability that in a large number of "monkeys" many of them produce the same output is way higher then the probability that one gets a specified ouput. you need to increase the number of tries and not the monkeys. (thats the thing with the birthday)

-> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
Last edited by lunat; 2010-11-13 at 12:23.