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A million monkeys and Shakespeare
Author(s) -
Anderson Jesse
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2011.00533.x
Subject(s) - trainer , art history , art , visual arts , history , computer science , programming language
It is the ultimate improbability. If a million monkeys sat at a million typewriters, they would eventually reproduce all the works of Shakespeare. Now they have done it. Or have they? On 6th October this year the BBC, CNN and world media reported that the last of the monkeys finished the job. Jesse Anderson was the monkey‐trainer. While Shakespeare gibbers, he explains what he – and the monkeys – have and have not done.