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  1. @SciAm @scientific-american-SciAm

    #PowerLaw #ZipfLaw #InfiniteMonkeyTheorem

    "Richard Futrell, a computational linguist at the University of California, Irvine, who was not involved in the new study, notes that 'there are a million different things that can give rise to Zipf's law.' "

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite

  2. โ€œIt is not plausible that, even with improved typing speeds or an increase in chimpanzee populations, monkey labour will ever be a viable tool for developing non-trivial written works.โ€

    โ™พ๏ธ๐Ÿ’โŒจ๏ธ๐Ÿ“œโŒ›

    A transparent attempt at an IgNobel.

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c748km

    #Shakespeare #Statistics #Randomness #InfiniteMonkeyTheorem #InfiniteMonkeys

  3. Those infinite monkeys are always typing up the Complete Works of Shakespeare but if there are an infinity of them, they'd also type up this post I am typing right now.

    Think about that.

    #InfiniteMonkeyTheorem