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

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.

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

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...

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...

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 ...

WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! I just wanted to refute somebody.