Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds

Technology@lemmy.world – 544 points – 5 days ago

The question that everyone has been dying to know has been answered. Finally! What will scientists study next?

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That's because they only considered one monkey.

You need a thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters.

They did not limit themselves to one monkey. From the article:

As well as a single monkey, they also did the calculations using the current global population of around 200,000 chimpanzees.

The whole study is trash. A chimpanzee is not a monkey.

It was the beat of times, it was the blurst of times

Stupid monkey