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Could monkeys really type the complete works of Shakespeare?

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Given an infinite amount of time, an infinite number of monkeys could eventually replicate Shakespeare .

But our universe isn't infinite, and this is probably impossible within the lifetime of our universe.

Researchers calculated the probability of a chimpanzee typing a word, a sentence, a book and the complete works of Shakespeare .

The chance of a monkey randomly typing anything coherent is very unlikely.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20070811010338/http://www.vivaria.net/experiments/notes/documentation/press/clippings/atlantajournal(usa-05-10).jpg https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Stephen.Woodcock https://chimpsnw.org/2013/03/how-long-do-chimpanzees-live/https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/308434/meta https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3498939/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773186324001014?via%3Dihub https://researchportal.lsbu.ac.uk/en/persons/geoff-cox https://ia904603.us.archive.org/18/items/NotesTowardsTheCompleteWorksOfShakespeare/Notes%20towards%20the%20complete%20works%20of%20shakespeare.pdf https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/may/09/science.arts

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