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The question that everyone has been dying to know has been answered. Finally! What will scientists study next?

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... the probability of the monkeys replicating even a single page of Shakespeare is unfathomably small.

But not zero.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Basically nothing is ever truly zero

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone wiser than me already said that it already has happened: 1 ape did, in fact, write the complete works of Shakespeare.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apes are monkeys though, just like we're apes and birds are dinosaurs

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

We are apes and birds are dinosaurs, but monkeys and apes are distinct categories under primates so no, apes are not monkeys.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

monkey c monkey do

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair enough. I wouldn’t want to insult the Librarian.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The probability of lots of things is zero. The probability of a monkey typing a Chinese character on an English keyboard is zero.

Similar idea: there are an infinite amount of numbers between zero and one, but none of those numbers is two.