Talented though they may be, monkeys will never type out the complete works of William Shakespeare, or even a short book, a new study suggests. The Infinite Monkey Theorem is a famous thought ...

The old adage goes that if you give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite amount of time hitting random keys on a typewriter, one of them will eventually type out the complete works of William ...

If you sit sufficient monkeys in front of sufficient typewriters and give them sufficient time, eventually their random banging will reproduce the works of Shakespeare. Thus asserts the Infinite ...

Could monkeys randomly striking keys on a keyboard for an for an infinite period of time produce a Shakespearean work? Doubtful, says a new study of the "Infinite Monkey Theorem." On more certitude in ...

Speaking of improbable versus impossible, here's a familiar thought experiment. If you had an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters, or one monkey with infinite time, would they eventually type ...

It turns out a monkey – given an infinite amount of time and a typewriter – wouldn't be able to write Shakespeare before the universe ends, according to a new study. HARRY SHEARER: (As Charles ...