It’s the great intellectual hypothesis that, given enough time, a monkey with a typewriter would reproduce the complete works of Shakespeare.
And now it’s happened...well, almost.
Mathematicians have created an army of millions of computerised monkeys, bashing away at virtual typewriters.
The software apes type random prose – in an attempt to mimic real primates – and a computer program compares the trillions of lines of gibberish they produce with the output of the 16th-century Bard.
Any letters matching small portions of Shakespeare’s writing are plucked out and formed into his plays, poems or sonnets. Read More
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