Two mathematicians in Australia now say that the Infinite Monkey Theorem is wrong and monkeys could not write Shakespeare ...

The Infinite Monkey Theorem hypothesizes that ... "banana" was not one of them. The chances of a chimpanzee managing to produce a short phrase such as “I chimp therefore I am” were much ...

And there, within the collection of mahogany trees, I catch sight of my first family of wild chimpanzees, grooming, playing, and eating ... coveted the bronze monkey, a sculpture from the nearby ...

Two Australian mathematicians have declared the “infinite monkey theorem” is misleading ... Apparently the probability of one chimp being able to produce a random sentence like “I chimp ...

Authorities say two monkeys have been returned to a South Carolina compound that breeds the animals for medical research.

“It is not plausible that, even with improved typing speeds or an increase in chimpanzee populations, monkey labour will ever be a viable tool for developing non-trivial written works,” the ...

Australian scientists have tested an old adage claiming that a monkey could eventually write ... works of William Shakespeare by sheer chance. Chimp movie star Kokomo Jr. in 1957.

They also assumed that each chimpanzee would type one key per second for every second of the day, with each monkey having a working lifespan of just over 30 years. Using these assumptions ...