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 ...

If you sit sufficient monkeys in front of sufficient typewriters and give them sufficient time, eventually their random banging will reproduce the works of Shakespeare. Thus asserts the Infinite ...

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There’s a thought experiment called the “infinite monkey theorem” that says, given an infinite amount of time, a monkey that randomly hits keys on a typewriter will eventually reproduce any body of ...

Carl Hiaasen loves talking about the monkey. You can hear it in his voice. For those familiar with the best-selling author’s literary monkeyshines, this will not come as a surprise. “Her name is ...

Bad news for monkeys: They're not going to make the New York Times best-seller list anytime soon. Researchers at Plymouth University in England recently tested the theory that an infinite number of ...

Along with Schrödinger’s Cat, the Infinite Monkeys Theorem is one of the most famous thought experiments. A new study, with tongue firmly in cheek, has calculated that you might be waiting seven ...