that's definitely not the way "infinite monkeys" goes.
The complete work has to appear in a single contiguous random stream (i.e., one of the individual monkeys)....which means that eventually (in an infinite time), not only would the fully correct "A Lover's Complaint" be produced, but also every possible version of the poem with one wrong character (including all the versions with every possible wrong character in each possible position), every possible version with two wrong characters, and so on.
As for this guy's method: I can get there much faster. Just use single character segments...
Although Chaplin wrote the melody of "Smile" in 1936, the lyrics were added only in 1954, by John Turner and Geoffrey Claremont Parsons. Parsons died 1987 (I can't immediately find a death date for Turner)
But it's still not clear why anyone at this point should be making money off creative work of people who are long dead, and why anyone should be in a position to make legal threats to block a present creative use of this song.
Copyright was, after all, supposed to be for a "limited time" and was for the benefit of the *author* (not his heirs or a corporation who bought or assumed notional "property" rights).
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Nope,
that's definitely not the way "infinite monkeys" goes.
The complete work has to appear in a single contiguous random stream (i.e., one of the individual monkeys)....which means that eventually (in an infinite time), not only would the fully correct "A Lover's Complaint" be produced, but also every possible version of the poem with one wrong character (including all the versions with every possible wrong character in each possible position), every possible version with two wrong characters, and so on.
As for this guy's method: I can get there much faster. Just use single character segments...
Although Chaplin wrote the melody of "Smile" in 1936, the lyrics were added only in 1954, by John Turner and Geoffrey Claremont Parsons. Parsons died 1987 (I can't immediately find a death date for Turner)
But it's still not clear why anyone at this point should be making money off creative work of people who are long dead, and why anyone should be in a position to make legal threats to block a present creative use of this song.
Copyright was, after all, supposed to be for a "limited time" and was for the benefit of the *author* (not his heirs or a corporation who bought or assumed notional "property" rights).