“If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of (strongly built) typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them would come out with an exact version of the Illiad.

But let us carry the reasonong beyond:

Now that we have found that hero among the monkeys, who would invest his life’s savings on a bet that the monkey would write the Odyssey next?”

- Nassim Taleb – “Fooled by Randomness“. 

monkey at a typewriter

monkey at a typewriter

On 22 Jan 2009 ·
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One Response to Monkeys and typewriters

  1. Bram says:

    Citisem și eu asta mai de mult pe Wikipedia:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
    și mi-a plăcut.