Sort of similarly when you shuffle a deck of cards then it is overwhelmingly likely that out of all the decks of cards in all of history none have ever been in that exact order.
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If you have an infinite amount of monkeys, technically wonât one of them nail it first try? Rendering the infinite amount of time very generous.
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The greatest explanation for how incomprehensibly big 52 factorial is:
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No itâs not itâs a thought experiment on the nature of infinity.
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You are assuming they all type together instead of one after another. That would require quantum monkeys. All the monkeys typing at all times in all dimensions, in which case yes we can assume that there is a quantum dimension where it has been done. I think 
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Oh, thought experimentâŠimmediately pulls cat, radioactive source and poison back out of the box.
Iâm struggling to understand how these idiots can get away with saying the theory is misleading.
There are loads of things we can compute/theorise which wouldnât come close to happening if we physically tried to manifest before the heat death of the universe.
Infinity is endlessâŠthatâs sort of the whole fucking point. I canât believe these idiots didnât spot this when trying to apply it to our finite universe.
It really is the blurst of times.
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Stupid monkeys.
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i guess weâll never know anyway so whatâs the point?
The 52 thing is crazy but you can kinda imagine it when you start to think about it. The rubix cube thing is confusing though. It seems so insane that there are so many combinations but you can solve it in so few moves from anywhere. I have not looked this up but might do in a mo but do you think that people are basing the amount of moves by how many faces there are and that they could be in any position? Because they canât. There are so many limitations to cube faces that you canât just do simple maths to get the answer. But, surely they have thought about this right?
Geological time is crazy, humans live closer in time to the T-Rex than T-Rex lived to the time of the Stegosaurus! Dinosaurs were around for a long fucking time. Humans have been here for no time at all compared, like Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the iPhone than to the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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I think you asking about Godâs number?
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I wish I knew I could get clout for stating that a finite amount of monkeys in a finite amount of time couldnât produce the complete works of Shakespeare.
It could be called the finite monkey theory, or the stating-the-fucking-obvious-theory
Cheeky bastards presumably getting paid for this. Nice work if you can get it.
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yeah exactly! I canât solve it in 20 moves though. I do it the novice way and barely break 40 seconds on a good day.
Seems they have thought out the limitations and itâs still 43 quintillion combinations. Thatâs bonkers to me and way above my paygrade to understand how.
I love these videos about big numbers. I canât begin to understand them but theyâre really entertaining for some reason:
There are others 
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I love this shit it makes me feel grounded knowing that all existence is completely meaningless
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In ancient Egypt 3000 years ago, they had archeologists who specialised in studying even more ancient Egypt from 2000 years before thatâŠ
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Thatâs so dope
The thing about the monkeys is great but last week I dropped a chopstick and it landed dead straight up in a hole in my crocs
Beat that, science
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The infinite monkey thing, Iâve never bought into. Donât care how infinite infinity is, it would never happen. Say the universe is infinite, that doesnât mean somewhere out there is a planet made of kebab meat. Wrong kind of infinite.
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Well Schrödingerâs cat is dead then too, because I said so! If the smartest minds and scientists canât work it out then I donât think anyone we know can prove or disprove it. The concept of infinite is too mental to really grasp, if anything it swings it in the favour of it happening. The meat planet is not the same thing, as the monkeys are actually typing and working away on doing something to help the conclusion of it happen.
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