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Well, he might count with Shnitzy, but when the Librarian tracks you down….
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What does infinite mean?
should i be offended?
I suppose the treatise on bananas was just too academic and therefore illegible unless you work in a university…
notasheep -“I suppose the treatise on bananas was just too academic and therefore illegible unless you work in a university…”
What are you complaining about? You should feel honored -I know I do.
From above:
“Runners up**:
~ari-free
~Health
~not a sheep”
As s/o with a Math/science brain, my writing has never been good -this is the very first time I even got mentioned as a “Runner up”!
I have a history/science brain.
Gamanit -“I have a history/science brain.”
I never heard of such a thing. Actually I was good in all subjects, except English.
Health – notasheep doesn’t have a maths/science brain and has always been a writer. When it comes to writing, notasheep doesn’t do ‘runner-up’.
I know. My school thought I’m going according to which teachers I like when I got great scores in science and history and not so great at math. They forced me to get evaluated, and the results showed clearly that I think in a different way than most people which makes it hard for me to learn math. It did prove to the school though that I was smart enough for them and wasn’t deliberately slacking.
I wasn’t complaining, honestly! I was merely pointing out that sometimes a piece of work that is too intelligent is often marked down cause people just don’t understand it. And in any case, it wasn’t me who wrote the treatise, it was the Librarian, who we have pointed out is not actually a monkey and if he hears the word used in reference to him goes bananas (‘scuse the pun). I was just trying to do a bit of marketing and PR for him.
“I wasn’t complaining, honestly! I was merely pointing out that sometimes a piece of work that is too intelligent is often marked down cause people just don’t understand it.”
Especially if it was judged by a panel of monkeys.
Wow, did I enter? I didn’t know that…
AND I DIDN’T WIN?!?!?
Nope. You just lost to a bunch of monkeys!
frumnotyeshivish wrote: What does infinite mean?
You will have to spend the rest of your life trying to answer that question.
*GASPS*
I won? I won something? I WON!
Shnitzy, you’re the best judge ever!
*ACCEPTANCE SPEECH*
(applause)
I am so pleased to have placed among the finalists in the MonkeyWriter Post Contest. Receiving this award is such an amazing honor.
(applause)
I feel humbled by the whole experience. I never thought I would win such an honor, let alone on The Yeshiva World Coffee Room, and certainly not from Shnitzy with a -y and not an -el.
Mark Twain said, “To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.” Even without a lot of noise, it has been an experience to remember.
(applause)
Thanks to everyone for your moral support, and especially my English teachers, who I managed to ignore most of the time. Thank you all again!
(applause)
(don’t you love it when applause is written into the speech?)
I thought of writing it and therefore had to write it. If I don’t win the finals, it would never get written, so how can I wait? Since while writing it I can pretend I don’t have 6 hours of homework waiting for me in real life.
“and certainly not from Shnitzy with a -y and not an -el.”
El Shnitz. I think I had that from Carlos and Gabbys.
Come on, wasn’t it a great speech? Even if it wasn’t all that warranted? Monkey think monkey do.
In a day or two, I will be enjoying several cognitively demanding finals spaced by only a few hours. My head is about ready to split from studying.
Results??? We are all hanging in suspense here…
I know I’m too late.
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Hey, hey, we’re the monkeys, and people say we monkey around, but we’re too busy typing….
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(Anybody who can translate that wins a free banana)
Why on earth would anyone WANT to win a free banana??????????
Because they’re delicious!
They’re also an excellent source of potassium.
Anybody gonna try my code? It is real. I’ll give you a hint to start you off: 2=e
I’m on it . . .
I’m having trouble with the format. Is each keystroke a different letter? What about spacing? Did a monkey really type this?
Each rune represents a specific rune in the human alphabet. The spacebar is the same in my monkey alphabet as in the human one.
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nuu what is the answer?
Still no answer…
And, still no finals…
But, I must say, Torah613Torah had some great posts on this thread, so I would say she’s the default winner.
I wonder how she did on her finals.
We have all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare.
Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
SiDi™
Infinite monkeys banging on infinite typewriters will end up with an infinite number of broken typewriters.
When I saw the title of the thread, I knew what I wanted to post, but… you beat me, SIDI. Indeed, you did it.
Are you using a typewriter? Otherwise you’re disqualified.
SIDI – Actually statistically speaking this is one of the biggest misconceptions ever. If you gave every monkey on the planet a typewriter, and they typed continuously for a billion years the likelihood of them typing a single Shakespeare sentence is minuscule. Take ‘To be, or not to be, that is the question’. There are 41 different characters that need to be printed in order (including spaces and commas). For simplicity’s sake assume 28 different characters possible for each space (26 letters, space, comma). That means there are 28^41 = 215515884439354503549955972322784526648224392221491019644928 different combinations. All are wrong except for 1. So, odds of being wrong is ((28^41) – 1)/(28^41) or approximately 0.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999536. Even given 500 million monkeys typing a new sentence every 5 seconds for a billion years, the odds would be that .999 etc.. number ^ (5,000,000 * 12 * 60 * 24 * 365 * 1,000,000,000) or .999 etc. ^ (31536000000000000000000). The actual odds would be 1-0.99999999999999999999999999999999999985367296 or 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000014632704. In other words not very likely.
Sorry for the nerd rant its just something that as a (slightly nerdy) mathematics person always bothered me. 🙂
Now someone asked an interesting question about pi. We all know it’s unpredictable 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375 1058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865 13282306647 blablabla
But if we take it forever, would we be able to find say a million 9’s straight in a row, billion 8’s…every possible combination of numerical string?
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