If you take an infinite number of monkeys, put them in a room with an infinite number of typewriters, and supp

Answer 1

You would have an infinite number of pages of random letters and numbers!

Answer 2

We have had billions of people with the ability to write, and only one Shakespeare. Therefore, I would say that you are only going to get an infinite amount of nothing interesting.

Answer 3

You will eventually end up with every combination of possible letters in every possible combinations of groupings. Among these groupings, of course, you will find your exact question followed by my exact answer, as well as all of the works of William Shakespeare, Jacqueline Susann, and Dr. Seuss. In fact, you will end up with an infinite number of copies of each manuscript replicated an infinite number of times, along with copies of every intermediate draft they ever wrote, every alternative ending to every story they ever considered, along with variations on their stories that they never even considered. There would be, for example, a version of Hamlet in which Hamlet gets addicted to video games and never moves out of his mom's basement. There would be a version of Romeo & Juliet in which they become porn stars and form a ménage a trios with Bert from Sesame Street.

Of course the basic idea is that given any finite system and an infinite amount of time, every possible combination of states within the finite system will eventually be repeated an infinite number of times. The set of possible characters that can be types upon a keyboard form a finite system (26 letters + 9 numerical characters + spaces, etc.). Every possible combination of keyboard characters of less than 1 million, for example, is also a finite set. Thus every combination of characters of every possible written work ever produced by humankind will be recreated an infinite number of times.

This basic idea applies to all states of matter and energy. It the universe is temporally infinite, and if the conservation of energy is true, and if there is enough mass in the universe to make it a spatially closed system, then there should be an infinite number of planets that are identical in every detail to earth, including an exact duplicate every grain of sand, every molecule of air, every worm, and every apple that every worm has ever inhabited. And of course there would be infinite duplicates of me typing this exact answer to your question. Hey, how do you like them apples?

Answer 4

i think of the biggest subject with it fairly is assuming that the monkeys *will* variety if left on my own with typewriters. purely because of the fact they have arms, it would not advise they are going to experience inspired to variety - I often experience the comparable way at artwork. i think of they could wreck the typewriters till they have been given bored of them, and then purely head off and breed and stay hassle-free lives like something human beings. in case you left endless numbers of ME on my own with endless typewriters, i could/we would in no way recreate the whole works of Shakespeare, because of the fact i did not very like his works. i could purely take a seat and consult with myselves, and we would lament that no person ever fairly understood us, mutually as secretly harboring the thought even the different us did not fairly understand us.

Answer 5

they would eventually type out the "anti-fundamentalism manifesto". this noble writing states categorically that humans are their descendants, the planet is 5 billion years old, and that jerry falwell has gone beyond morbidly obese, and should choose to read the diet book "authored" by "dr. phil", who is also bloated, in both body and ego. ;-)

Answer 6

You'll have a very crouded room and might go bankrupt on bananas.

Answer 7

Heyyy!! Get back to your cage and leave that typewriter alone :-)

Answer 8

Eventually, your sentence would be complete and end with a question mark.

Answer 9

you'd be slipping and sliding in monkey feces before the day is done.

Answer 10

is this the one where the monkies are supposed to write hamlet or what