Infinite monkey theorem
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The infinite monkey theorem says that a monkey randomly hitting keys on a typewriter will eventually type out one of William Shakespeare's works. When people talk about the infinite monkey theorem, the "monkey" is not always a real monkey. Instead, it is an example of a device that produces random letters. However, the chances of a monkey actually typing a text, like Shakespeare's Hamlet, are very small.[1][2][3]
References [change]
- ↑ Monkeys, Typewriters and Networks, Ute Hoffmann & Jeanette Hofmann, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH (WZB), 2001.
- ↑ Associated Press (2003-05-09). "Monkeys Don't Write Shakespeare". Wired News. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,58790,00.html. Retrieved 2007-03-02.
- ↑ Arthur Eddington (1928). The Nature of the Physical World: The Gifford Lectures. New York: Macmillan. pp. 72. ISBN 0-8414-3885-4.
Other websites [change]
- The Million Monkey Room, an essay by D.R. Belz from The Baltimore Examiner
- RFC 2795 - The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS)
