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Monkeys Will Never Type Shakespeare (bbc.co.uk)
8 points by zabzonk on Nov 1, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


> 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.


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




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