The English mathematician and philospher Bertrand Russell
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The English mathematician and philospher Bertrand Russell (18721970) once said that if a million monkeys were given a million typewriters and typed away at random for a million years, they would produce all of Shakespeares works. Let us limit ourselves to the following fragment of Shakespeare (Julius Caesar III:ii): Friends, Romans, countrymen Lend me your ears. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives on after them, The good is oft interred with the bones. So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus hath told you that Caesar was ambitious, And, if so, it were a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answered it... Even with this small fragment, it will take a lot longer than a million years! By what factor (roughly speaking) was Russell in error? Make any reasonable assumptions you want. (You can even assume that the monkeys are immortal.) SSM
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