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 ...

Each chimp was assumed to have the same productive, if reluctant, typing speed. With a 30-key typewriter that included ...

The study contends that even under favorable conditions, a monkey’s chances of randomly typing Shakespeare’s Hamlet are so astronomically low as to be practically impossible. “The Infinite ...