Using these assumptions, the researchers calculated that among these randomly-typing monkeys, there is just a 5% chance that a word as simple as “bananas” would occur in the lifespan of one chimpanzee. They found that a short sentence such as “I ...

Two Australian mathematicians have called into question an old adage, that if given an infinite amount of time, a monkey pressing keys on a typewriter would eventually write the complete works of William Shakespeare.

The Infinite Monkey Theorem is legit, but the universe will die before any simian could reprise the Bard's poems and prose.

Monkeys will never be able to write Shakespeare’s entire works, study finds - It challenges the long-held theory that monkeys pressing keys at random on a typewriter would eventually be able to reproduce the famous texts.

Monkeying around: a study finds it would take 200 000 monkeys the lifespan of the universe to type out “I chimp, therefore I am”. According to the well-known thought experiment, the infinite monkeys theorem,

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 googol years for your Shakespeare.