It has been said that an army of dedicated monkeys, typing at random, would eventually produce all of Shakespeare’s works. How long, on average, would it take 1 million monkeys, each typing on a 46-key typewriter (space included but no shift key) at the rate of one key stroke per second, to type the phrase “to be or not to be”? How long, on average, would it take one monkey to do so at a computer if the computer would only accept the correct letter in the phrase and then would shift to its next letter (i.e. the computer knew what it wanted). What do these results indicate about the probability of order randomly arising from disorder Vs order arising through a process of evolution?
2006-10-08
20:04:36
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