Like the infinite monkeys typing Shakespeare, but with audio instead.

If there was a program that created a series of sounds at random intervals, pitches, amplitudes, etc., how long would it take to produce an output that sounds like music, some sort of recognisable recording (e.g. a bell ring, a dog barking), or perhaps even a human voice?

  • Brokkr@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Yes, that’s right. Which means that any specific outcome is essentially impossible to occur. But given infinite time, they all would occur.

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      4 days ago

      Not necessarily. Roll a twenty-sided die twenty times, and you’re not guaranteed to roll every number.

      Roll an infinite-sided die infinity times, and there’s no guarantee either.