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damian2000

Sounds similar to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem ...

"a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare."

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In the ideal world of mathematics there is no distinction between creating and discovering. Everything that is possible exists. That makes the infinite monkey theorem or statements like "the answers to all the great questions of the universe can be found in the digits of π" meaningless. For instance, every future masterpiece of literature already exist in mathematical sense, yet it will still take a genius to discover it in the infinite sequence of all possible texts.

Do you have any bibliography for this topic? I would be very grateful, I'm extremely interested in this.

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