Tuesday, August 01, 2006

we just wanna monkey around...

ha! the infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a type writer keyboard for an infinite time will almost surely type the collected works of shakespeare, if not every single piece of literature that has ever, and will ever be written. note that almost surely is being used in a precise mathematical sense here.
popular culture references to this theorem include the simpsons (in the episode last exit to springfield, monty burns has his own room with 1000 monkeys at typewriters, one of which is chastised for mistyping a word in the opening sentence of a tale of two cities — "it was the best of times, it was the blurst of times? you stupid monkey!") and family guy (a group of monkeys is shown collaborating on a line from shakespeare's romeo and juliet in a cut scene).

i have gotten all lazy and stopped writing. until i begin again - i shall devote 5 minutes a day to wikipedia.

1 Comments:

Blogger Harpo said...

> i have gotten all lazy and stopped writing.

You could get a bunch of monkeys to write it for you…

3:57 pm  

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