Wikipedia's language being unintentionally funny

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[u/Specific-Antelope-72]

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

[u/Kiwi8_Fruit6 → u/Specific-Antelope-72]

the chance of a chimpanzee writing Hamlet is low, but never zero

[u/Digit00l → u/Kiwi8_Fruit6]

I don't know all the punctuation that appears in the script of Hamlet, so if we just assume full stops, commas, question marks, and exclamation marks, and assume we don't care about the text to be case sensitive, and don't require line breaks, a keyboard with the required 31 keys needed to type the script (26 letters, 4 punctuation, and a space bar) could achieve the script of Hamlet in a 1/31^H where H stands for the required keystrokes to type out Hamlet

This number is so incredibly small that calling it astronomically small does it injustice, but it is greater than 0

[u/Hiraganu → u/Digit00l]

Now imagine a thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters. Soon they'll have written the greatest novel known to man!

[u/Digit00l → u/Hiraganu]

An infinite amount of monkeys on typewriters will produce an infinite amount of literary masterpieces, and an infinitely larger amount of pure slop, also an infinite amount of the human genome