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by criddell 1467 days ago
> Given infinite monkeys, you'll get Shakespear.

That seems like an odd assertion. Just because you can produce and infinite number of something it doesn't mean that every variation will be produced. I can generate an infinite list of numbers that doesn't contain '3'.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem

>I can generate an infinite list of numbers that doesn't contain '3'.

But you can't generate an infinite random list of numbers that doesn't contain '3'. The complete works of Shakespeare are just another one of the infinite permutations of characters a monkey could type.