A new study reveals it would take far longer than the lifespan of our universe for a typing monkey to randomly produce Shakespeare. So, while the Infinite Monkey Theorem is true, it is also somewhat misleading.

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  • Nougat
    36•3 months ago

    … the probability of the monkeys replicating even a single page of Shakespeare is unfathomably small.

    But not zero.

    • @CeeBee_EhEnglish
      3•3 months ago

      Basically nothing is ever truly zero

      • Nightwatch AdminEnglish
        23•3 months ago

        Someone wiser than me already said that it already has happened: 1 ape did, in fact, write the complete works of Shakespeare.

          • @KlearEnglish
            2•3 months ago

            apes ⊂ monkeys, actually.

            • @scarabicEnglish
              3•3 months ago

              monkey c monkey do

            • @scarabicEnglish
              2•3 months ago

              We are apes and birds are dinosaurs, but monkeys and apes are distinct categories under primates so no, apes are not monkeys.

      • @CryophiliaEnglish
        1•3 months ago

        The probability of lots of things is zero. The probability of a monkey typing a Chinese character on an English keyboard is zero.

        Similar idea: there are an infinite amount of numbers between zero and one, but none of those numbers is two.