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tpham Jan 15, 2002

but what if all those minutes were wasted on nothing but gibberish.. what if no real words were ever formed.

deanh77 Jan 16, 2002

you completely missid the point Ty. after 800*38^173944 monkey-minutes, there WILL BE a copy of Hamlet among a very,very large amount of gibberish.

tpham Jan 17, 2002

yea but did that formula calculate all possibility that nothing comes out of BUT gibberish..

deanh77 Jan 17, 2002

ok you kind of have a point, first of all I'm not sure what you mean by gibberish, if you mean, no english words, or no strings of english words that are sentences, etc. However getting hamlet is e...

tpham Jan 17, 2002

exactly.. see.. the algorithim before as i read it stated... numbers and stated chances as if it WAS a definite.. but then there's probablity... of missing keys.. etc...

deanh77 deanh77Founder

mmm. not quite. given enough amount of time (which may as well be infinity for our minds, but it is actually finite) they most probably would come up with a copy of Hamlet, because the probability would get soooo close to 1 (but never quite reach it).

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder

WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!

I just wanted to refute somebody.

punkprincess punkprincessOG 2001

and you choose DEAN to refute?! dont you know that will lead to embarassment?!

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