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Monkeys Will Never Type Shakespeare

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• yawpitch 2y ago
  > if given an infinite amount of time, a monkey pressing keys on a typewriter would eventually write the complete works of William Shakespeare Amazing that it took this long for Australian mathematics to prove that finite < infinite.
  • defrost 2y ago
    Usual tale .. they waited for the Brits to get around to it .. and eventually did it themselves. eg. Here the BBC is late with the story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42004052 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42004052