“Oh, poor monkey, how you sweat!”
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If every chimpanzee on Earth were given a typewriter, they wouldn’t be able to reproduce the works of William Shakespeare even if they continued typing until the heat of the universe, researchers have calculated.
The so-called infinity monkey theorem says that if you had an infinite number of primatesor a primate had infinite time, they would almost certainly have written any text an infinite number of times.
The origin of the theorem is obscure, but it is usually attributed to…
