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Author Topic:   A Proposed Proof That The Origin of The Universe Cannot Be Scientifically Explained
Dr Adequate
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Message 205 of 220 (694457)
03-25-2013 12:50 AM
Reply to: Message 200 by designtheorist
03-24-2013 6:54 PM


Re: Improbability and time
A random letter generator would be expected to hit one of the keys on the top row, a numeral, at some point in the more than 600 consecutive key strikes needed to produce the sonnet. You could not expect a random letter generator to completely avoid 25% of the keyboard for more than 600 consecutive key strikes.
Yes I could expect it. I could expect it do do so 0.75619 of the time, which is a small number but not zero. I could expect this precisely because the generator is random.
You just don't understand probability theory. There's no shame in this, but there is something a little bit shameful about lecturing other people on it, this being the case.

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