“Alas, poor ape, how thou sweat’st!”
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If each chimpanzee on Earth got a typewriter, they wouldn’t reproduce the works of William Shakespeare even when they saved on typing till the warmth dying of the universe, researchers have calculated.
The so-called infinite monkey theorem states that in case you had an infinite variety of primates, or one primate had infinite time, they’d virtually actually sort out any given textual content an infinite variety of occasions.
The origins of the concept are obscure, however it’s generally attributed…
