Posted by GaDS on September 01, 1998 at 15:54:29:
In Reply to: They're talking a lot but they're not saying anything posted by Bob 2 on August 31, 1998 at 23:54:39:
: Pycho killer..Ba, ba, ba, Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba
: Infinity never stops typing, you’re thinking is too short sighted.
First, what is the psycho killer thing? Inside joke?
Also, I am aware that the monkeys would keep typing forever (assuming that's what the second line is referring to). The question is, how could Monkey 1 ever be able to include what Monkey 2 is typing in addition to what he is typing if Monkey 2 never stops typing himself. Even more, how could he include what the other 98 are turning out? How could he incorporate what they're typing if he never finishes typing what Monkey 2 is working on? And since each of the other monkeys have to have as part of their text everything Monkey 1 has, which includes what they've typed...
I initially asked this because the story goes that a hotel with an infinite number of rooms is full up when another infinitely large crowd shows up looking for lodging. The hotel manager finds the rooms by having everyone move to the room number twice as big as the number of the room they are currently occupying (the guest in Room 1 goes to Room 2, the guest in Room 2 to Room 4, and so forth, freeing up the infinite number of odd rooms for the new crowd). The problem I have with this explanation is that if an infinite number of people were at the hotel then the second crowd already had to be registered since the first crowd would have had to include them or it wouldn't have been infinite - some set had been excluded. I'm sure that somewhere there's something that addresses this sort of concept and the paradoxes/ramifications, but don't know who might have done it.
GaDS
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