Library Of Babel

The odds of a perfect novel being written by a machine with a 31 letter (Including Exlamation, Question, Dot, Comma and Space) Character set while every letter is generated random. What do you think the odds are? Since each character "choice" is independent, we multiply the probability of each step together. The odds of getting the entire 4,000-character novel correct is P = (1/31)^4000 To make this number more readable, we can convert it to a power of 10 31^4000 =~10^5965 The odds are approximately 1 in 10^5965. If you had a trillion Computers typing 1,000 characters per second since the beginning of the universe, the chance that they would have produced your 4,000-letter novel by now is still effectively zero. You are significantly more likely to pick one specific atom out of the entire universe on your first try than you are to randomly generate this short novel. While still, you can try :)