So there's this infinite number of monkeys right...

[Hunter]

...and they want to show us this script for Hamlet they've worked out.

Anyway...

Gentlemen, BEHOLD! Monkeys Writing Shakespeare! (http://user.tninet.se/~ecf599g/aardasnails/java/Monkey/webpages/)

[file cabinet]

After 1.70788e+30 pages in this session, a monkey typed:

1.Gent. You do nBm"IeHHH0]8OhwCmVG6sxj-Be6cWWec...

the first 16 letters of which match "Cymbeline":

cool

[Birnam]

and this is an example of the rest of the pages :D

f?PfTklA4&UBkX5a[Yk5ok"&K;dagH)g)iz"V1qh,2XYkt-[ipfOP, FQl)"x.DVD(yA
ChFBJCwNC1"zbT?jOl!8tpypD:F "V;Dl0Jw)V8-
p:]TxLZM3]]h2T,oy;gL

anyone have view on the whole "monkey hypothosis"? (I'm fishing for debate :D)

[Melody]

lol, they will of course produce everything that can be written, as well as anything else that can be represented with text, like digital information ("1" and "0") (they could make every MP3 ever made. XD ,) but a massive, massive majority of it will be garbage.

[Claverhouse]

but a massive, massive majority of it will be garbage.

And the majority of what we humans produce... ? :devil:


Claverhouse :ph34r:

[Birnam]

claverhouse- :rofl:

I don't think a bunch of monkeys will ever even get one of Will's plays. The galaxy will have ended before they get that far. happppy

I mean really after 42,162,500,000 billion billion years the monkeys have gotten 19 letters from "Two Gentlemen of Verona" ...