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

(Thanks to Doug in Sacramento. Ed. Floden and Roberto)

Bob Newhart knew this in 1963.

Comments

[Clankie]

And yet... Scripts for " Gilligan's Island " and " Petticoat Junction " flowed from jungle typewriters for years.

[MOTW]

They were replaced by the wooden dialogue generator.

[Carl Sagan’s Calulator-Broke]

Whodathunkit?

Do the math and show your work.

[Inquiring minds]

Is Dave hinting about having a backroom full of monkeys in the guest cottage on the estate?

[Bigfoot]

Sure, it's all peaches & cream until the typewriter ribbons need to be changed.

[Ralph]

Typing monkeys have been replaced by AI. They both produce gibberish, but AI is better at hiding it.

[wanderer2575]

Even so, you wouldn't need to buy CliffsNotes to understand what the monkeys type.

[LeDud]

But I bet they could type Chinese to English fireworks warnings in that time span.

[The Squirrel Whisperer]

Easy calculation. If the monkey had N symbols to pick from the probability it would randomly pick K successive symbols to form a sentence with K symbols is (1/N)^^K. So if N=52 and K=4 (such as Dave in the English alphabet and we have both upper and lower cases) the probability the monkey would randomly type Dave is 0.14*10^(-6). In other words, forget it.

[Bill Shaw]

Were Typing Monkeys on the stage when Jim Morrison & the Doors had the issue with the Police?

[Florida Man]

I thought a hamlet was an egg-less omelet.

[Doug in Sacramento]

Yet three monkeys can write a finished political speech in about twenty minutes, a half-hour tops.