Not just hamlet but the entire body of works accredited to Shakespeare
damn, that monkey must be pretty prolific, perhaps even rivaling Shakespeare! Do we know their name?
Christopher Marlowe
I thought they were written by a Klingon.
Not on a typewriter though. Task failed successfully.
Pretty sure some other monkey did tho
We're apes though.
Great ones even!
Apes are monkeys, in the same sense that humans are apes.
I'm not entirely sure that statement is correct, but it's been a while since I took any anthropology courses...
Edit: I was wrong and remembered the tree incorrectly.
Family tree of primates. As you can see, old world monkeys and new world monkeys share their last common ancestor with the apes. That means that phylogenetically, that if they are both monkeys, then so are all the apes.
You are factually correct, the best kind of correct!
It is correct. I've been corrected on this before and did the research to discover I was wrong. Humans are Monkeys.
One of us even wrote:
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.
One of us even wrote this!
The monkeys are really the friends we make along the way
As the saying goes
An infinite number of multicellular organisms with an infinite number of writing utensils will eventually reproduce a recognizable literary work
A more pithier way of putting it is that we are the universe experiencing itself.
A monkey wrote Hamlet. It got mediocre reviews.
We're apes, not monkeys, though.
We’re both. Apes are a subset of old world monkeys.
e: sorry, old, not new
simiiformes / simians
And you don't start sentences with capital letters.
I mean it's better than capitalizing Random Words because you think it Looks Cool and it will Make America Great Again!
Or to write some WORDS completely in CAPITAL letters to CREATE disgusting CLICKBAIT titles.
Not endless, i guarantee it.
Didn't some math nerd prove that they would need more time than exists in the universe to make this happen?
It's been calculated many times, and yes, it would take an absurdly long amount of time, and that's the point. When dealing with infinities, time is irrelevant, whether you have infinite monkeys or one monkey and infinite time, they will still both do every possible thing a monkey could do.
In fact, infinite monkeys would not only write Hamlet, they would write it instantly, an infinite number of times, and in all possible languages, as well as the possible sequel where Marvel's Blade shows up to fight vampires. Instantly.
Good luck finding them though.
Well, they wouldn't write it instantly - in the best case, they would start writing it instantly, and finish in optimal time. However, it's possible that no monkey would actually write it on the first try - we'd have to get into some complex predictions on monkey brains and physiology, it's possible that with their brains and muscle structure they wouldn't go for the kinds of character sequences to produce Hamlet, perhaps changing up patterns enough to produce something more random only after a certain amount of time.
Depending on how you formulate the experiment, it could be that no monkey could finish it before physiologically having to take a break or something, returning to specific patterns afterwards that would render it impossible for it to finish writing Hamlet, and thus no monkey would ever write Hamlet in a continuous string of characters, from start to end.
But yeah, if we just say they're typing completely random characters without pause forever, yup, infinity dictates some fraction of monkeys would immediately be on the right track and finish writing as soon as possible, for anything you can think of.
That only is true with limited amounts of monkeys. A million might not do it in the first try, but an infinite amount would mean one of those monkeys at least would do it first try. Which monkey that is is just as absurd as asking when it will happen when we use infinite time instead.
Is the point of these logic memes to illustrate the properties of infinity or to prove a point about what can or cant be done though?
No. They proved it would take a finite number of monkeys longer than there is time in the universe. Not sure what the point of that paper was, since the theory involved an infinite number of monkeys.
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