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Of course in real life people might start getting suspicious.Р”В®ven though the event of one monkey producing Shakespeare when randomly typing 5,000,000 characters has such a microscopic probability, we are 'certain' of it eventually occurring in exactly the same sense that we are 'certain' that if we repeatedly flip a fair coin, it will eventually come up heads. If you bought one lottery ticket a week, this is like winningР”В®very week for 20,000 years. So the tiny chance p is equivalent to winning around 1,000,000 lotteries in a row, since 10 7,500,000 is around 10 7.1 to the power 1,000,000. Since 10 7,500,000Р”Сћ 25,000,000, it is about the same chance as flipping a fair coin 25,000,000 times and it coming up heads every time.Р”Р„lternatively we can think of the National Lottery, where the chance of winning the jackpot is around 1 in 14,000,000 10 7.1. This probability is rather small but it is finite. So each time the monkey starts typing, there is a chance of p=1/10 7,500,000 of completing Shakespeare. Right, from beginning to end, is 1 in 31 5,000,000. Each character typed therefore has a 1 in 31 chance of being the right one, so the chance that the first 2 are correct is 1 in 31 Р“вЂ” 31, which equates to 1 in 961. Let's be generous to the poor monkey and ignore the fact that there are lower and upper case characters and various extra bits of punctuation, so there is one of only 31 characters in each position. What is the chance of this happening for any particular generated sequence? The sequence would have to start with the first character (the first 'T' in 'The complete works.') and continue through around 5,000,000 characters (including spaces) until it reaches the end. The claim is that, given enough time, such a program would generate the entire Complete Works. The image shows that after 113 million monkey seconds (or around 26 days for 50 monkeys typing one character a second) the longest match was 'we lover', which matched with the speech by Boyet, 'With that which we lovers entitle affected', in Love's Labours Lost, Act 2 scene 1. In fact, this was only one of 37 matches of this particular sequence in the whole of the Complete Works. The image to the right shows the situation after the program has generated the sequence 'y sak' and matched it with the phrase 'and for my sake even so doth she abuse me', which comes from Sonnet 42.

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Line returns in the text file, and also cannot match all the other punctuation in the text, such as the 10,475 question marks and 8,827 exclamation marks.)Р”Р„ screenshot from the Monkey Simulator programe (We note that this procedure cannot match sequences that stretch over the 36,357 Characters are generated at a rate of 50 per second. Then it starts again with a new sequence of four characters. If the procedure finds one or more matches, it generates a further character and again checks if there is a match for five symbols, and so on, until no matches are found. After a sequence of four symbols has been generated, the program searches for a match in a stored plain-text version of the Complete Works of Shakespeare, ignoring whether a

#TYPING MONKEY FULL#

The Monkey Simulator program generates random symbols from a list of 31 options: 26 lower-case letters, a space, a comma, a full stop, a semicolon and a hyphen. We said we needed a program to churn out random letters and match them to Shakespeare, and so they commissioned a Monkey Simulator program from Aaron Russell, which is When the BBC Horizon team decided to make a programme about infinity, they contacted us about simulating the monkeys.

The idea that an infinite number of monkeys typing at random on an infinite number of typewriters will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare apparently dates from 1913, and has appeared repeatedly in popular culture ever since.

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