"It was the best of times, it was the BLURST OF TIMES?!?!"
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I'm showing one of your videos in a college math class that I am teaching tomorrow. It is the one about when people will use math. Keep up the content. I've got 3 daughters and I want more female math/science popularizers to show them.
1 year ago
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Oh Shakespeare eventually comes from monkeys at keyboards etc!?
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My favorite variation of it is a single monkey, typing away for eternity. True definition of eventuality.
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This seems a good time to mention that well known particle botherer Professor Brian Cox's BBC Radio 4 comedy/science show 'The Infinite Monkey Cage'. It's not known whether it's a cage for one infinite monkey or for an infinite number of regular monkeys but you should listen to it if you can.
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Is that where you give a hundred monkeys a hundred typewriters and one of them finally generates an internet comment?
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Insert option 4 in your post: 4: I've seen your post and searched on Google
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Yeah, it's where infinity monkeys end up writing "The hamlet" by Shakespeare purely by accident!
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Every so-called "normal number" contains every possible finite string of digits somewhere in its decimal form. An example is a number that starts 0.0123456789101112131415.... And maaaaybe pi is an example, but no one knows for sure. I'm not personally sure if this is sufficient for a number to classify as normal, but it's at least necessary. These numbers are all irrational. There are infinitely many different normal numbers. There is a countable infinity of computable normal numbers and an uncountable infinity of uncomputable normal numbers. (The same could be said about irrational numbers in general.) This is not exactly the same as the infinite monkeys theorem, but it's a related fun concept. Every normal number encodes every book ever written, every video game or software or other file, and every person's name. Yes, yours too, if it can be written at all.
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very unrelated topic,but i wonder a lot about it: If we have a piece of paper, and let it fall, we could calculate how it will fall down, if we know the conditions perfectly. However there is no way in being accurate in this. We can be as accurate as we want to be, if we know enough about the system, but never could we simulate the actual and exact path of that piece of paper. However there is just one path this piece of paper will take (ignoring quantum mechanics here) So actually nature somehow ""calculates"" how it will fall. There is no real calculation going on, of course, but it is kind of a way to get the result, by just doing it. And it stunnes me, that its impossible to calculate,while it just happenes in front of our eyes. Even a perfect mathematical pendulum can only be approximated. You can do easy approximations like sin(x)=x, but you can also do bether ones. However they will never be perfect. How can that be?
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I know what the Infinite Monkey Theorem is! Shakespeare's work is so revered it's able to generate infinite amounts of monkeys and typewriters
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Yep, and the library of babel is another cool idea that follows the same logic.
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Monkeys wrote all the books in the Library of Babel? That makes sense.
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Do you know what the Infinite Monkey Theorem is?
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