An old adage says that a monkey randomly clicking away at the keyboard would eventually type the complete works of William Shakespeare after being at it long enough. However, a new study by two ...

・A chimpanzee randomly hitting keys has about a 5% chance of typing “bananas” in its lifetime, but producing Shakespeare is another matter entirely. ・Even 200,000 chimpanzees typing one key every ...

It would take far longer than the lifespan of our universe for a typing monkey to randomly produce Shakespeare, a new study reveals. A monkey randomly pressing keys on a typewriter for an infinite ...

A monkey can type “bananas” by chance. Shakespeare is another matter entirely. Once the infinite time promised by a famous probability theorem disappears, random typing runs into the hard limits of ...