An old adage says that a monkey randomly clicking away at the keyboard would eventually type the complete works of William Shakespeare after being at it long enough. However, a new study by two ...

There have been two studies disprove the hypothesis infinite monkeys could eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. For number-crunching purposes, the researchers assumed that a keyboard contains ...

In 1854, the Irish mathematician George Boole mused that probability was “expectation founded upon partial knowledge.” His insight captures an eternal question: if randomness reigns long enough, might ...