Talented though they may be, monkeys will never type out the complete works of William Shakespeare, or even a short book, a new study suggests. The Infinite Monkey Theorem is a famous thought ...

Could monkeys randomly striking keys on a keyboard for an for an infinite period of time produce a Shakespearean work? Doubtful, says a new study of the "Infinite Monkey Theorem." On more certitude in ...

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As the old adage goes, a monkey left with a typewriter for an infinite amount of time would eventually write the complete works of William Shakespeare purely by chance. The so-called Infinite Monkeys ...

Given an infinite amount of time, an infinite number of monkeys randomly prodding keys on a typewriter could, in theory, ...

It’s a staple of popular fiction, but two mathematicians in Australia now say that an age-old maxim is nothing more than bananas. The Infinite Monkey Theorem hypothesizes that, given a typewriter and ...