18 Jan '12 23:23>10 edits
Originally posted by robbie carrobieIf I had drawn also your attention to *the chance you would type that many characters* it would not have benefited *your* argument Robbie!
ah but dear Agers, you were unaware that the number of numerals was i fact a chance
occurrence itself as i simply placed my finger on the zero and let is 'zing', until i
thought it was enough to demonstrate the mathematical improbability (i think
mathematicians hold that something ten to the power of fifty zeros as being almost
an impossibility)
As for impossibilities (noting that ten to the power of fifty zeros evaluates to 1!) - if there are more than ten to the power of [ten to the power of 50] opportunities to try and get any (unspecified in advance) outcome with a probablilty of ten to the power of [- (ten to the power of 50)] then it's far from feasible to say that attaining some such outcome is impossible (indeed in a mathematical sense we *approach* certainty here that one of such outcomes will occur).
Moreover, as for whatever non-negligble word length post you make next (either here, or elsewhere), the chance you are going to make it, by your reasoning, is nigh on impossible!