Monkey unable to type all of Hamlet before the universe ends but could type "bananas" before it dies
The "infinite monkey theorem" suggests that if you gave a monkey an infinite amount of time to randomly hit keys on a typewriter, it would eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare—Hamlet included—purely by chance. Unfortunately, it won't happen before the end of the universe. That's according to a new scientific study by mathematicians at th…
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