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    1 day ago

    But arent there infinite monkeys? You should have already seen it written an infinite amount of times in 892 trillion years

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      22 hours ago

      Perhaps it’s in the monkey’s psychology that they’d never hit the keys that much before just destroying it all. They’re a pretty poor pick for a random value generator.

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      19 hours ago

      Not necessarily. There are an infinite number of positive numbers, but -13 will never be one of them. Ergo, even with infinite possibilities, you still may not see a particular combination (even if it does fit the criteria; my metaphor is imperfect).