Ketan's Musings

This just made my day!

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A discussion with Nirav reminded me of “The Infinite Monkey Theorem,” which states that:

a monkey typing at random on a typewriter keyboard, will “almost surely” type out the complete works of William Shakespeare

We were discussing the notion of a typical Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in a typical CMMI Level 5 approved company. There are an almost infinite^[1] number of software developers, “almost surely” one of them is going to come up with working software, as against mortals using Continuous Integration on a dollar-a-day, refactoring, to ensure that the software just works, every time, and (hopefully) all the time.

Footnotes

[1] “almost infinite” in this context refers to “a lot”, since a few “million” is much closer to infinity than say a few “hundred”, we consider a few “million” to be “almost (equal to) infinity”

Resources

@see Proof of the Infinite Monkey Theorem.
@see RFC2795 — The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS).

I got hold of this one while on JM road. This one contains the four parts of the “five part trilogy”.

The books are described as “a trilogy in five parts“, having been described as a trilogy on the release of the third book, and then a “trilogy in four parts” on the release of the fourth book. The fifth book was originally released with the legend “The fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker’s Trilogy” on the cover. Subsequent re-releases of the other novels bore the legend “The [first, second, third, fourth] in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker’s trilogy.”

More about it on .

Sreesanth, who lists breakdancing as a hobby, was the day’s outstanding personality, providing a moment of comic drama towards the end of India’s innings. After Andre Nel advanced threateningly down the pitch after a bouncer, Sreesanth hammered the next ball for a straight six and ran down the pitch twirling his bat to taunt the South African fast bowler. His action made him a target for the spectators and he seemed to delight in playing up to them between overs when he fielded on the fine leg or third man boundary.

Nikhil just sent this link. Watch Sreesanth swing his bat on Google video.