It's not to be. Universe too short for Shakespeare typing monkeys
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It's not to be. Universe too short for Shakespeare typing monkeys 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 amount of time wo
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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/mvea on 2024-10-31 12:09:56+00:00.

Original Title: It would take far longer than the lifespan of our universe for a typing monkey to randomly produce Shakespeare. There is a 5% chance for a single chimp to type the word ‘bananas’ in its own lifetime. However, the entire 884,647 words will almost certainly never be typed before the universe ends.