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The probability that 100 randomly typed keys will consist of the first 99 digits of pi (including the separator key), or any other particular sequence of that length, is much lower: (1/90) 100. If the monkey's allotted length of text is infinite, the chance of typing only the digit of pi is 0, which is just as possible (mathematically probable ...
The following is a list of living centenarians (living people who have attained the age of at least 100 years) known for reasons other than just their longevity. For more specific lists of people (living or deceased) who are known for these reasons, see lists of centenarians .
The Postmodernism Generator is a computer program that automatically produces "close imitations" of postmodernist writing. It was written in 1996 by Andrew C. Bulhak of Monash University using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text from recursive grammars. [1] A free version is also hosted online.
The oldest man ever verified is Jiroemon Kimura of Japan, who died in 2013 aged 116 years and 54 days. [14] Inah Canabarro Lucas (born 8 June 1908) of Brazil is the world's oldest living person, aged 116 years, 241 days. João Marinho Neto (born 5 October 1912) of Brazil is the world's oldest living man, aged 112 years, 122 days. [15] [16]
The sentence "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents", in Zalgo textZalgo text is generated by excessively adding various diacritical marks in the form of Unicode combining characters to the letters in a string of digital text. [4]
A Zenú Indian from Colombia who was reputedly over 160 years old at the time of his death. Although his death is variously said to have been in 1955, 1956, and 1958, sources all claim that he was born in 1789.
Tim Hutchings created Thousand Year Old Vampire in 2019 and self-published it as a PDF. After a Kickstarter campaign crowdsourced enough money, [1] [5] a hardcover edition was published by Petit Guignol that Stu Horvath describes as looking like "a Mysterious Old Book with a leather spine, marbled end papers, and evocative collages of ephemera inside."
100: Japanese novelist [106] William Krehm: 1913–2019: 105: Canadian author, foreign correspondent and Spanish Civil War volunteer [107] Stanley Kunitz: 1905–2006: 100: American poet; two-time Poet Laureate (1974 and 2000) [108] André Lafargue: 1917–2017: 100: French journalist and theatre critic [109] Marc Lamunière: 1921–2021: 100 ...