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Old 27-12-2012, 06:08 AM   #578 (permalink)
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I'm massively sleep deprived but: 0. Monkeys, Shakespeare, etc.

Right?
Right. Yes, that's one good way to think about it, if you leave the small mathematics out...

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Yeah the sum you'd set up would converge to 1, wouldn't it?
Yes. There's a much easier approach than setting up the sum and breaking into geometric progressions etc though..
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