22-11-2016, 03:17 AM
(22-11-2016, 01:46 AM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Well that reminds me of an example in the Bennett's book: if you get a team of monkeys striking the typewriter keys in a random manner forever, then once upon a time they would be able to produce "Hamlet", "War And Peace" and any other past and future text ever created by humanity. That's simply because "forever's a very long time", as the song has it.
For another example (if I'm not mistaken it's Bertrand Russel's), each irrational number (such as pi) would contain encoded version of "Hamlet", "War And Peace" etc. somewhere along the way after its decimal point. For sure, decryption of the VMS is also to be found there. Just a bit of patience is needed.
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There is a similar saying in the US: "If you throw a stick of dynamite into enough printing companies, eventually you will get the Declaration of Independence."
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