If a monkey was placed before a typewriter and incentivized to hit keys at random it would take it vastly longer than the universe’s anticipated lifetime to produce the complete works of ...

positing that a monkey randomly hitting keys on a typewriter could eventually reproduce the works of William Shakespeare, given infinite time. Immortalized in pop culture from The Simpsons to The ...

Here’s how the plot goes. Imagine that a monkey is typing on a typewriter. If the monkey keeps typing over an infinite amount of time, and assuming that the monkey is typing keys purely on a ...

By Alexander Nazaryan Science doesn’t usually tolerate frivolity, but the infinite monkey theorem enjoys ... amount of time to peck away at a typewriter (stocked with an infinite supply of ...