disproving the infinite monkeys theorem by observing that there are in fact only finitely many monkeys

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@littmath How would you feel if you had infinite monkeys for breakfast?

@littmath May as well have tried to dispute the infinite monkeys theorem by calculating the probability of them writing Shakespeare before they died of old age, since they decided to make time a factor. All I saw was a group of researchers who missed the point of a thought experiment

@littmath Disproving the infinite monkeys theorem by observing that monkeys' typing is pseudorandom at best

@littmath I know @sarah_zrf is reading this like 'checks out'

@littmath Checkmate

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@littmath Such a dumb paper

@littmath I couldn’t get over the fact that the article kept calling it a ‘study’ when as far as I could tell it was just… a silly math paper? Or do they just call every paper a ‘study’ in the UK

@littmath disproving the hairy ball theorem by observing that the earth doesn’t grow hair on it

@littmath now imagine that we have 50 non-shakespeare-typing monkeys and 1 shakespeare-typing monkey randomly distributed inside of two urns

@littmath There exists n monkeys, for some small integer n. At least we hope so. God help us otherwise.

@littmath proving the infinite monkeys theorem by observing that there are in fact only finitely many monkeys and observing this is a perfectly logically correct proof

@littmath The better disproval is the one that experimented and found that monkeys do not, in fact, type randomly and have a strong preference for pressing the same key multiple times. It's also pedantic and misses the point but at least its about something in the actual proposition

@littmath I knew it was false when I realized that my budget could only support 5 monkeys at most: proof by insufficient funding.

@littmath I told a HS freshman class about the infinite monkeys ones. One student’s response: “Wow, monkeys are really smart!” Still funny many years later.

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@littmath Proving the infinite monkeys theorem by observing the immense cultural contributions that monkeys have made to theater, such as the play in this photograph

@littmath Limit theorems now need to replace infinity with 10 to the power of 3 billion because that’s one digit per second of a human life. Anything more isn’t humanly possible.

@littmath Ah but did you count all the really small ones at the edges?

@littmath Also, when was the last time you had a cocktail in Hilbert’s hotel of infinite rooms, checkmate liberals

@littmath This is hateful btw

@littmath My grand plan for space monkey breeding at scale scares actuarial purists everywhere.

@littmath "functionally infinite"

@littmath @Pandeism Even if such a thing were possible to observe (i.e., even if you could somehow know, from empirical observation, that there are, in fact, only finitely many monkeys), it would not disprove the (if-then of the) theorem.

@littmath decomposing an infinite number of monkey into an infinite number of point sets and then rearranging them so as to produce two infinity monkeys identical to the original ones.

@littmath We already knew about the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhol…. Now we need a ruling on monkey nests.

@littmath "what would it be like if you put a billion horses in a room? impossible, we don't have a billion horses. idiot!"

@littmath If space extends infinitely in all directions, and also infinitely repeats, there might actually be infinite monkeys.

@littmath Not when I’m done

@littmath all those monkeys provably have the same color, at least

@littmath In turn your disproof is disproven by the hidden infinite monkeys theorem.

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@littmath Countably finite, or uncountably finite?