Australian Mathematicians Prove 'Infinite Monkey Theorem' Impossible! 🐒

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Summary:

  1. Debunking the Theorem
    Australian mathematicians have proven the “infinite monkey theorem” to be impossible within the lifespan of the universe.

  2. Key Calculations
    Researchers Stephen Woodcock and Jay Falletta calculated that even 200,000 chimpanzees typing one character per second would not reproduce the complete works of Shakespeare before the universe’s heat death.

  3. Low Odds of Success
    A single chimpanzee has only a 5% chance of typing the word “bananas” in its lifetime, while more complex phrases face astronomically lower odds.

  4. Revisiting Probability
    Associate Prof Woodcock stated that this finding places the theorem among other probability puzzles, highlighting the disparity between theoretical infinite resources and the constraints of our universe.

  5. Scientific Implications
    The research challenges the notion that random typing could yield coherent works, offering new insights into probability and theoretical limits.

Read more at: BBC

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I’ve never heard “within the life span of the universe before heat death” as part of the saying. The entire point is the nature of “infinity”, which would include infinity amount of time so wtf is this…

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Firstly, this is not a complicated concept, any statistics undergraduate could do this in minutes. Second, they are completely missing the point of the Infinite Monkey Theorem, it is to demonstrate the peculiar aspects of infinity. For example, the complete works of Shakespeare are contained in the number pi. Trying to find where is the impossible part. It took a simulation 42,162,500,000 billion billion monkey years to type the first 19 characters from The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

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Monkey years is term I never though I would see in a gazillion years

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