Infinite Monkey?

Question

Does anybody know the POINT of the Infinite Monkey Theorum?? I mean, unless we all begin working randomly and hope to accomplish our tasks sometime in the infinite future. Or is it just some random pointless theory?

Answer 1

The point is that even the most remote possibility is still possible given enough time. Its a way of creating conceptual example of how probability can work when you have infinite time and repetition

Answer 2

Daniel Dennett explains that the metaphor of an infinite number of monkeys banging away randomly on typewriters, and recreating (eventually) all the works of Shakespeare, illustrates how fecund true infinity would be. Anything and everything would happen, again eventually, in an unlimited timespan.

The fact that the action occurs randomly wouldn't matter at all in a truly infinite timespan.

Answer 3

The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type or create a particular chosen text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. In this context, "almost surely" is a mathematical term with a precise meaning, and the "monkey" is not an actual monkey; rather, it is a vivid metaphor for an abstract device that produces a random sequence of letters ad infinitum. The theorem illustrates the perils of reasoning about infinity by imagining a vast but finite number, and vice versa. The age of the universe is dwarfed by the gulf of time it would take a monkey to accidentally type Hamlet, so in a physical sense it would virtually never happen.

Variants of the theorem include multiple and even infinitely many typists, and the target text varies between an entire library and a single sentence. The history of these statements can be traced back to Aristotle's Metaphysics and Cicero's De natura deorum, through Blaise Pascal and Jonathan Swift, and finally to modern statements with their iconic typewriters. In the early 20th century, Émile Borel and Arthur Eddington used the theorem to illustrate the timescales implicit in the foundations of statistical mechanics. Various Christian apologetics on the one hand, and Richard Dawkins on the other, have argued about the appropriateness of the monkeys as a metaphor for evolution.

Today, popular interest in the typing monkeys is sustained by numerous appearances in literature, television and radio, music, and the Internet. A "Monkey Shakespeare Simulator" website got as far as 24 characters with "RUMOUR. Open your ears; ". In 2003 a humorous experiment was performed with six Sulawesi crested macaques, but their literary contribution was five pages consisting largely of the letter S, besides attacking and defecating on the typewriter. Researchers concluded that the infinite monkey theorem does not apply to real monkeys; despite their entertaining methods, they make poor random number generators.

Answer 4

I has to do with the concept of infinity. If you have infinite randomness (it doesn't have to be monkeys) then you have infinite possibilities - i.e. anything is possible.

Answer 5

The internet already proves this theory.

How many crap websites were created for the few good ones we visit daily?