• millie@beehaw.org
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    11 hours ago

    Considering that there are an infinite number of potential arrangements of keystrokes that aren’t Hamlet? I’m honestly not fully convinced that you’d necessarily get Hamlet to begin with, let alone in a finite amount of time. Could you? Sure. But an infinite set minus an infinite number of possibilities still leaves an infinite number of possibilities. Any or all of which could not be Hamlet.

    There are an infinite number of values between 1 and 2, but none of them are 3.

    • AbsentBird@lemm.ee
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      45 minutes ago

      There aren’t an infinite arrangements of keystrokes that are the length of Hamlet and aren’t Hamlet. Hamlet is 191,726 characters long, it’s like guessing a password.

      44 keys on a typewriter, 191726 characters, makes 44^191726 or about 4.054 × 10^315094 combinations.