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<blockquote data-quote="Sodalis" data-source="post: 232841" data-attributes="member: 1791">they havent produced war and peace per se- but they reproduced parts of it using a classical conditioning of monkeys.What they did was have ten monkeys look at the sentence and try and reproduce it.&nbsp; the monkey that came closest was rewarded.&nbsp; After like ten tries, they came like two letter off of reproducing the entire first sentence.&nbsp; they did this for a month and got the first chapter.&nbsp; technically the monkeys were not typing randomly, but associate the keys with the symbols (letters) and so that sped up the process.&nbsp; they were reading and copying the book- not really typing randomlyBut if this was completely random clicking of keys, it would take 32^bajillion years (depending on the number of characters in the book. counting 26 letter, space, return, comma, period, question mark, and quotation marks as characters) a page on average has 250 words, each word has average of 5 letters, so...32^(5*250*#pages ) is the total probability that it will be reproduced at any given time given random clicking of keys...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sodalis, post: 232841, member: 1791"] they havent produced war and peace per se- but they reproduced parts of it using a classical conditioning of monkeys. What they did was have ten monkeys look at the sentence and try and reproduce it. the monkey that came closest was rewarded. After like ten tries, they came like two letter off of reproducing the entire first sentence. they did this for a month and got the first chapter. technically the monkeys were not typing randomly, but associate the keys with the symbols (letters) and so that sped up the process. they were reading and copying the book- not really typing randomly But if this was completely random clicking of keys, it would take 32^bajillion years (depending on the number of characters in the book. counting 26 letter, space, return, comma, period, question mark, and quotation marks as characters) a page on average has 250 words, each word has average of 5 letters, so... 32^(5*250*#pages ) is the total probability that it will be reproduced at any given time given random clicking of keys... [/QUOTE]

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