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  • #1023754
    shnitzy
    Member

    Good point. Theoretically speaking, no. but since he is a cousin of monkeys, I will let it pass. You’re welcome.

    #1023755
    writersoul
    Participant

    Well, he might count with Shnitzy, but when the Librarian tracks you down….

    #1023756
    shnitzy
    Member

    1 Hour left

    #1023757
    OneOfMany
    Participant

    nu

    #1023758
    frumnotyeshivish
    Participant

    What does infinite mean?

    #1023759
    shnitzy
    Member

    Finalizing final results…

    #1023760
    shnitzy
    Member

    All right monkeys, gather round! The official results are in.

    Thank you to our 14 contestants: Says Me, WIY, Torah613Torah, just my hapence, not a sheep, one of many, yitayningwut, frumnotyeshivish, health, ari-free, benignuman and writersoul for your most eloquent and creative submissions.

    There are 4 finalists and 3 runners up.

    Finalists*:

    ~Torah613Torah

    ~tzaddiq

    ~just my hapence

    ~Daas Yochid

    Runners up**:

    ~ari-free

    ~Health

    ~not a sheep

    *Stay tuned for details regarding the MonkeyWriter Finals.

    **Prizes will be announced and distributed in due time

    Congratulations to all. Best of luck in the upcoming competitions, which will be judged by vote of CR members, more info to follow.

    This Thread is sponsored by

    SHNITZY

    And dedicated in honor of

    GAMANITS BIG WIN***

    ***See S Thread for details

    #1023761
    SaysMe
    Member

    should i be offended?

    #1023762
    shnitzy
    Member

    no, complimented. it means you’re not quite as wacked as the rest of them. 😛

    And that you didn’t have the patience to do anything more elaborate than a bunch of random keys shmishkebbabled together.

    Capiche?

    #1023763
    notasheep
    Member

    I suppose the treatise on bananas was just too academic and therefore illegible unless you work in a university…

    #1023764
    shnitzy
    Member

    Rationalization.

    Face it. Some were just better than others.

    #1023765
    Health
    Participant

    notasheep -“I suppose the treatise on bananas was just too academic and therefore illegible unless you work in a university…”

    What are you complaining about? You should feel honored -I know I do.

    From above:

    “Runners up**:

    ~ari-free

    ~Health

    ~not a sheep”

    As s/o with a Math/science brain, my writing has never been good -this is the very first time I even got mentioned as a “Runner up”!

    #1023766
    🐵 ⌨ Gamanit
    Participant

    I have a history/science brain.

    #1023767
    Health
    Participant

    Gamanit -“I have a history/science brain.”

    I never heard of such a thing. Actually I was good in all subjects, except English.

    #1023768
    just my hapence
    Participant

    Health – notasheep doesn’t have a maths/science brain and has always been a writer. When it comes to writing, notasheep doesn’t do ‘runner-up’.

    #1023769
    🐵 ⌨ Gamanit
    Participant

    I know. My school thought I’m going according to which teachers I like when I got great scores in science and history and not so great at math. They forced me to get evaluated, and the results showed clearly that I think in a different way than most people which makes it hard for me to learn math. It did prove to the school though that I was smart enough for them and wasn’t deliberately slacking.

    #1023770
    notasheep
    Member

    I wasn’t complaining, honestly! I was merely pointing out that sometimes a piece of work that is too intelligent is often marked down cause people just don’t understand it. And in any case, it wasn’t me who wrote the treatise, it was the Librarian, who we have pointed out is not actually a monkey and if he hears the word used in reference to him goes bananas (‘scuse the pun). I was just trying to do a bit of marketing and PR for him.

    #1023771
    ari-free
    Participant

    “I wasn’t complaining, honestly! I was merely pointing out that sometimes a piece of work that is too intelligent is often marked down cause people just don’t understand it.”

    Especially if it was judged by a panel of monkeys.

    #1023772
    writersoul
    Participant

    Wow, did I enter? I didn’t know that…

    AND I DIDN’T WIN?!?!?

    #1023773
    ari-free
    Participant

    Nope. You just lost to a bunch of monkeys!

    #1023774
    ari-free
    Participant

    frumnotyeshivish wrote: What does infinite mean?

    You will have to spend the rest of your life trying to answer that question.

    #1023775
    Torah613Torah
    Participant

    *GASPS*

    I won? I won something? I WON!

    Shnitzy, you’re the best judge ever!

    #1023776
    shnitzy
    Member

    More flattery??? It’s not over you know. But I’ll accept the compliment ;).

    Good luck in the next stage! 😀

    #1023777
    Torah613Torah
    Participant

    *ACCEPTANCE SPEECH*

    (applause)

    I am so pleased to have placed among the finalists in the MonkeyWriter Post Contest. Receiving this award is such an amazing honor.

    (applause)

    I feel humbled by the whole experience. I never thought I would win such an honor, let alone on The Yeshiva World Coffee Room, and certainly not from Shnitzy with a -y and not an -el.

    Mark Twain said, “To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.” Even without a lot of noise, it has been an experience to remember.

    (applause)

    Thanks to everyone for your moral support, and especially my English teachers, who I managed to ignore most of the time. Thank you all again!

    (applause)

    (don’t you love it when applause is written into the speech?)

    #1023778
    Torah613Torah
    Participant

    I thought of writing it and therefore had to write it. If I don’t win the finals, it would never get written, so how can I wait? Since while writing it I can pretend I don’t have 6 hours of homework waiting for me in real life.

    #1023779
    ari-free
    Participant

    “and certainly not from Shnitzy with a -y and not an -el.”

    El Shnitz. I think I had that from Carlos and Gabbys.

    #1023780
    shnitzy
    Member

    Torah, ain’t that a little premature on your part?

    #1023781
    Torah613Torah
    Participant

    Come on, wasn’t it a great speech? Even if it wasn’t all that warranted? Monkey think monkey do.

    In a day or two, I will be enjoying several cognitively demanding finals spaced by only a few hours. My head is about ready to split from studying.

    #1023782
    shnitzy
    Member

    Mmmhhhmmmm. Gluck.

    #1023783
    notasheep
    Member

    Results??? We are all hanging in suspense here…

    #1023784
    hahahaha
    Member

    I know I’m too late.

    but I couldn’t resist.

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    #1023785
    Vogue
    Member

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    #1023787
    Bookworm120
    Participant

    Hey, hey, we’re the monkeys, and people say we monkey around, but we’re too busy typing….

    #1023788
    YW Moderator-42
    Moderator

    #_+(:2 (:2 .+,’2) ,2?23 .+32m

    (Anybody who can translate that wins a free banana)

    #1023789
    oomis
    Participant

    Why on earth would anyone WANT to win a free banana??????????

    #1023790
    🐵 ⌨ Gamanit
    Participant

    Because they’re delicious!

    #1023791
    Bookworm120
    Participant

    They’re also an excellent source of potassium.

    #1023792
    YW Moderator-42
    Moderator

    Anybody gonna try my code? It is real. I’ll give you a hint to start you off: 2=e

    #1023793

    I’m on it . . .

    #1023794

    I’m having trouble with the format. Is each keystroke a different letter? What about spacing? Did a monkey really type this?

    #1023795
    YW Moderator-42
    Moderator

    Each rune represents a specific rune in the human alphabet. The spacebar is the same in my monkey alphabet as in the human one.

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    #1023796
    pixelate
    Member

    these mods aren’t tough. they’re just crazy

    #1023797

    nuu what is the answer?

    #1023798
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    Still no answer…

    And, still no finals…

    But, I must say, Torah613Torah had some great posts on this thread, so I would say she’s the default winner.

    I wonder how she did on her finals.

    #1023799
    SayIDidIt™
    Participant

    We have all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare.

    Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

    SiDi™

    #1023800
    ari-free
    Participant

    Infinite monkeys banging on infinite typewriters will end up with an infinite number of broken typewriters.

    #1023801
    Randomex
    Member

    When I saw the title of the thread, I knew what I wanted to post, but… you beat me, SIDI. Indeed, you did it.

    #1023802
    👑RebYidd23
    Participant

    Are you using a typewriter? Otherwise you’re disqualified.

    #1023803
    cent_cent
    Participant

    SIDI – Actually statistically speaking this is one of the biggest misconceptions ever. If you gave every monkey on the planet a typewriter, and they typed continuously for a billion years the likelihood of them typing a single Shakespeare sentence is minuscule. Take ‘To be, or not to be, that is the question’. There are 41 different characters that need to be printed in order (including spaces and commas). For simplicity’s sake assume 28 different characters possible for each space (26 letters, space, comma). That means there are 28^41 = 215515884439354503549955972322784526648224392221491019644928 different combinations. All are wrong except for 1. So, odds of being wrong is ((28^41) – 1)/(28^41) or approximately 0.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999536. Even given 500 million monkeys typing a new sentence every 5 seconds for a billion years, the odds would be that .999 etc.. number ^ (5,000,000 * 12 * 60 * 24 * 365 * 1,000,000,000) or .999 etc. ^ (31536000000000000000000). The actual odds would be 1-0.99999999999999999999999999999999999985367296 or 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000014632704. In other words not very likely.

    Sorry for the nerd rant its just something that as a (slightly nerdy) mathematics person always bothered me. 🙂

    #1023804
    ari-free
    Participant

    Now someone asked an interesting question about pi. We all know it’s unpredictable 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375 1058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865 13282306647 blablabla

    But if we take it forever, would we be able to find say a million 9’s straight in a row, billion 8’s…every possible combination of numerical string?

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