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

And, if so, could a monkey — given infinite time — type out the works of Shakespeare? For decades, the Infinite Monkey ...

Australian scientists have disproven the theory that a monkey could eventually type out the works of Shakespeare if they had all the time in the world. The study, published in the peer-reviewed ...

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By Alexander Nazaryan Science doesn’t usually tolerate frivolity, but the infinite monkey theorem enjoys an ... larger number than it might seem in type — entropy will have caused all the ...

Two Australian mathematicians have called into question an old adage, that if given an infinite amount of time, a monkey pressing ... was enlisted and able to type at a pace of one key per second ...

The researchers have been training monkeys to type letters and copy exactly what they see on a screen, and individual components of the system had been tested, but the system had not yet been ...