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In the second paragraph of 'Almost Surely,' the article states that "Equally probable is any other string of four characters allowed by the typewriter, such as "GGGG", "mATh", or "q%8e"." However, this is not true as (for example) to type "GGGG," not only would four 'g's need to be pressed, but the shift key would need to be held down for '''all four of them.''' [[Special:Contributions/2600:6C50:17F:F672:B9B3:58F6:4BF8:9E2D|2600:6C50:17F:F672:B9B3:58F6:4BF8:9E2D]] ([[User talk:2600:6C50:17F:F672:B9B3:58F6:4BF8:9E2D|talk]]) 18:25, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
:The example is supposing that capital letters and lower case letters are considered distinct keys with the same probability for simplicity. Note also that it includes %, which would have similar rules given a normal keyboard. I'm not sure which would be better: adding a note explaining that factoring in shift makes the math more complicated, or just forgetting about it and removing shift-key-only letters from the examples.'''<sub>[[User:IntegralPython| Integral Python]]</sub><sup>''[[User talk:IntegralPython| click here to argue with me]]''</sup>''' 21:39, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
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