Monkeys don’t have enough time to write Shakespeare, math confirms

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Message 274 - Posted: 4 Nov 2024, 3:59:27 UTC

Looks like this project is now obsolete!
Monkeys don’t have enough time to write Shakespeare, math confirms
The universe would end long before chimpanzees could randomly reproduce Shakespeare's works.
However, according to a new study, that would take an incredibly long time to happen — far longer than the expected lifespan of the universe. In other words, it’s basically impossible for a monkey to actually type out Shakespeare’s works by mere random keystrokes.

Mathematicians Stephen Woodcock and Jay Falletta from University of Technology Sydney (UTS) decided to investigate the theorem in the context of our finite universe:

“The infinite monkey theorem assumes an infinite amount of time or an infinite number of monkeys. We decided to look at the probability that a given sequence of letters would be written by a finite number of monkeys within the expected lifetime of the universe.”


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Message 275 - Posted: 4 Nov 2024, 7:10:56 UTC - in response to Message 274.  

I can see Pavlov's dog doing it faster than the monkey
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Message 279 - Posted: 13 Dec 2024, 8:02:56 UTC

Project is working.

Sorry for my absent I had some health and familly issue.
I am backing to work
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Message 280 - Posted: 14 Dec 2024, 17:26:10 UTC

Well, let's hope, that this will lead to better use of this project, I don't see the infinite monkey theorem as something for a NCI BOINC project, that's actually a "simple" math problem and the probabilities can be calculated for any amount of monkeys and time.
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