From Moonlight Sent Thu, Jun 10th 1999, 09:20
From Moonlight Sent Thu, Jun 10th 1999, 09:20
>well, assuming the monkeys don't die after their normal lifespan, and they >accomplish "infinite" time, wouldn't they eventually make/find every audio >possibility? >now, if there were "infinite" monkeys as well, they could do it all >instantaneously... Wait a minute here, i'm guessing there are uncountably many different sound variations/sequences that could be made, so if we only have a countably infinte number of monkeys (how could we have an uncountable number? we could just ask them to stand in line and then we'd know that thy're only countable) and a countably infinite amount of time (well, if you break time into seconds, and monkeys really can't do more than thing a second), then we would still have a countable sert of sounds that these monkeys made. So i'm sorry, unless you have a countably infinite number of sounds (which i find doubtful), we'll not even touch on what could actually be done. That is assuming that these monkeys can do everything that a person could and are totally random monkeys. So the question is, how large is the set of all the different sound possibilites? Countable? Uncountable? Please use transfinte numbers Aleph-Naught, Aleph-One, etc. in any response. _________________________________ Adam Roesch / xxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx University of Idaho / Moscow / ID / USA Visit my Fila Brazillia/Pork Recordings fan site: http://dogbert.augsburg.edu/~roesch/pork/ "Because success needs killing" TRICKY