system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: If I typed random strings of numbers for a product key number long enough, would I eventually get a number that actually works?
gpt
Yes, you would. However, consider this example. If each key has 12 spaces, and each space can be any any digit or letter, that's 36x36x36x36x36x36x36x36x36x36x36x36 combinations, which means if you try one every second the Sun will burn out before you've tried them all.