But a new study suggests that the thought experiment is “potentially misleading” – because our universe would have ended long ...

Two Australian mathematicians say they have debunked an old adage, that if given an infinite amount of time, a monkey ...

Monkeys will not be able to type the complete works of William Shakespeare, or even a short book, before the death of the ...

It’s a midsummer’s pipe dream. Chimpanzees might be capable of human speech— but they can’t ape our literary prowess.

Turns out that monkeys (or chimps) can't randomly type Shakespeare's works even if they were given billions of years to try.

Fresh doubt has been cast over the famous scientific proverb that if given an infinite amount of time, monkeys could type the complete works of Shakespeare. Utilised for decades as the exemplar in ...

There was only around a five per cent chance that a single monkey would randomly write the word "banana" in their lifetime, ...

If a monkey types randomly at a keyboard for long enough, it will eventually write the complete works of Shakespeare. This thought experiment has long been used to express how an infinite amount ...

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