r/lovethissmug • u/Specific-Antelope-72 • 25d ago

😻 Meme Or Other Online Trope 😂 Wikipedia's language being unintentionally funny

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u/Specific-Antelope-72 25d ago

Also this one, which my reddit app didn't send for some reason.

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u/Ernest_Mateu 25d ago

i love how it says probably lol

So there's a possibility that the monkey is writing hamlet?

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u/Nurgle_Pan_Plagi 25d ago

The chance of a monkey randomly writing Hamlet is low, but never zero.

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u/Digit00l 25d ago

That is indeed how probability works, the probability of writing Hamlet by just randomly hitting keys on a keyboard are greater than 0, not much greater, but greater still

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u/colibri01 24d ago

So for context, this is referencing a thought experiment where if you have an infinite number of monkeys typing words randomly, one of them is going to type out the entirety of hamlet. What does this mean? No idea. Probably something really profound.