has anyone actually done the math on the hackneyed expression that a bunch of monkeys will eventually write the complete works of Shakespeare? cause it sounds like bullshit even if there are a trillion immortal monkeys. plus the universe would end at some point depending on what theory you subscribe to.
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@mister_monster I'd like to interject for a moment. What you are referring to as done, is in fact, not done, or as I've recently taken to calling it, lazy evaluation. When you can't (or don't want to, cause lazy, but in this case most definitely can't) do something, you just say you have done it and when someone asks for the result, you just do the relevant part of the work at that moment and hand it over. The site generates the books as you request them. I couldn't find any evidence that it ever generated anything coherent (that was not input by the user with the clever "search" trick). If you can bare to go through all the nonsense in the theory section the one or two references to any sort of calculation there admit that the task is impossible.

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