Monkey, typewriter, Bible...

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Communist_Paradise

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Okay, this has been bothering the great communist thinker for days now, lets see if you caplists can help solve the problem.

Given there is a monkey, a typewriter, and infinitely amount of time, the monkey is constantly press keys on the typewriter, do you think the monkey would eventually type up the full Bible?

Dude, this question is very very deep...
 
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Regine

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Depends on what kind of monkey.
If it's a chimp he/she would probably be too smart to type up the bible. It would print something worthwhile.
 
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Yo Ma Ma

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I don't think he'd complete the Bible, no. Probably some provocative posts on the bulletin boards though, that would be attainable :D
 
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Capn

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The monkey would die, the typewriter would break. But, no anyways.
 
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Regine

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That and I love monkeys ;)

Edit: I love them because of the whole anthropology major thing.
Farbio, you sicko ;)
 
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Capn

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Since we've yet to experience an infinite amount of time, and no evidence to say that there is another infinite amount of time ahead of us. My bet would be no, once again. This question is stupid, very much so. Given an infinite amount of time a tree could write a poem with its leaves. Yet this won't happen either, with or with out a monkey.
 
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Capn

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A wise man once said, there's no stupid questions just stupid people. :)
 

I'm with Cap'n. The question, although I won't comment on how ridiculous it is;), really makes you think about how long eternity is.
 
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jyrixx

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given infinite amount of time: the monkey would type every peice of literature we have today, and most likely many other great things. however, the question isn't will it eventually be done.. the question is, how long will it take? :)
 
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I would presume that over an infinite amount of time, all possible things, however improbable they might seem, would eventually happen, except Janet Reno becoming a waitress at Hooter's.
 
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You're all assuming that the monkey would keep using the typewriter. Unless the monkey is in a 6' glass cube with nothing else in the box and it was impossible for him to have fun (if you know what I mean), then the monkey might end up typing a few real words within maybe 100 years. However, since the monkey doesn't learn, it doesn't know if it's doing better or worse, or even what it's doing, so it might just randomly hit keys for its entire life, or hit all the keys at once, or take off the keys and eat them or play games with.
 
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UG

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Incredible, statistically improbable things happen every day.

Children are born every day; each child a unique expression of genetic coding and expression.

Roll time back to just before each newborn was conceived. Then, let the parents try again.

Will the outcome be the same as in the original instance?

Statistically improbable happenings are quite common (like the 6 numbers randomly generated during any one lottery). Its the statistically improbable happenings to which we attribute special significance that seem downright impossible (like the 6 numbers randomly generated during any one lottery that happen to match your own preselected 6 numbers).

How about the odds of an infinite number of monkeys typing away on an infinite number of typerwriters producing the bible; well, a bible that makes more sense to them, anyway.

 
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