Infinite monkey theory....
We all know the old saying... if a million monkeys sat at a million typewriters, eventually they will come up with the complete works of William Shakespeare.
Well, it appears there could be as many as 100 million active blogs, that's a lot of monkeys at a lot of keyboards. Can we expect a blogged version of the bards great works? Perhaps not.
Anyway, try here for an account of the infinite monkey theorem. The University of Plymouth actually tried the theory out using six Sulawesi crested macaques. The monkeys, Elmo, Gum, Heather, Holly, Mistletoe and Rowan, knocked out five pages consisting largely of the letter S (clearly trying to write Shakespeare), and made a bit of a mess of the keyboard.
For more about their literary endeavours try Notes Towards the Complete Works of Shakespeare or read a news report about the experiment.
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