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prophesi
12 months ago
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Universe would die before monkey with keyboard wri...
Sounds to me that the more interesting question would be graphing out the relationship of time and the amount of monkeys needed for one to write Shakespeare.
hanche
12 months ago
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That's done in the paper. Using a log(log) scale for time, measured in number of heat deaths of the universe. It's the most amusing part of the study.
prophesi
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Awesome! I really should have checked the paper and skipped the article entirely.
The figure in question:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277318632...
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