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Chimpanzees Could Never Randomly Type the Complete Works of Shakespeare, Study Finds
While testing the "infinite monkey theorem," mathematicians found that the odds of a chimpanzee typing even a short phrase ...
Monkeys will never have capacity to write complete Shakespeare works, study says
The study challenges the long-held theory of probability that, given an infinite period of time, monkeys pressing keys at ...
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Universe would end before monkey with keyboard learns to type Shakespeare
New study challenges the belief that monkeys could randomly type the complete works of Shakespeare after clicking at the ...
Sorry, Monkeys Won’t Write Shakespeare Before the Universe Ends
The Infinite Monkey Theorem is legit, but the universe will die before any simian could reprise the Bard's poems and prose.
Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, study finds
However, a new peer-reviewed study led by Sydney-based researchers Stephen Woodcock and Jay Falletta has found that the time ...
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McLean Community Players spoof the Bard with pared-down Shakespeare
The McLean Community Players will bring much-needed levity to The Grange in Great Falls this weekend when they perform “The ...
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Monkeys will never have capacity to write complete Shakespeare works, study says
Monkeys will never have the capacity to write the complete works of William ... within our finite universe”, given Shakespeare’s plays, poems and sonnets totalled some 884,000 words.
Monkeys will never be able to write Shakespeare’s entire works, study finds
It challenges the long-held theory that monkeys pressing keys at random on a typewriter would eventually be able to reproduce ...
Mathematicians have spoken: Monkeys will never be able to write Shakespeare
The universe will end long before the monkey can type ‘all but the most trivial of phrases’, mathematicians say of the famed ...
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Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, study finds
a monkey pressing keys on a typewriter would eventually write the complete works of William Shakespeare. Known as the "infinite monkey theorem", the thought-experiment has long been used to ...
The Independent10d
Mathematicians have spoken: Monkeys will never be able to write Shakespeare
As the old adage goes, a monkey left with a typewriter for an infinite amount of time would eventually write the complete works ... poems and sonnets of Shakespeare remain extremely unlikely.