By New York Zoological Society — Image derived from: Chimpanzee seated at a typewriter; Public Domain. I have bad news for one of statistics favorite sayings. As the story goes, given enough time and enough monkey’s randomly pressing keys on a keyboard, the complete works of shakespeare will eventually get typed out purely by chance. This is called the Infinite Monkey Theorem.  The only problem is, according to work by Stephen Woodcock and Jay Falletta, our universe won’t last long enough for this to happen… given just one monkey.  And when the increased the count to equal the...

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