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 ...

Karl Pilkington has been “vindicated” by a new report about monkeys and William Shakespeare. On Friday (1 November), a study into the Infinite Monkeys Theorem, which claims that an endless number of ...

China's marriage rate has dropped by 16.6% in 2024, but the dating market remains strong, with the rise of the "monkey-type man" as a new dating trend. China's marriage rate has seen a notable decline ...

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The idea that a monkey randomly pressing keys on a typewriter for an infinite amount of time would eventually type out the complete works of Shakespeare is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and ...

Beating the bard at his own game? It was all over the media. "Virtual Monkeys Write Shakespeare" proclaimed the BBC website. "Monkeys type out the entire works of Shakespeare by hitting random keys ...

Along with Schrödinger’s Cat, the Infinite Monkeys Theorem is one of the most famous thought experiments. A new study, with tongue firmly in cheek, has calculated that you might be waiting seven ...

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