The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.
Of course, in the obscure world of mathematics, the monkey is not really a monkey, but a metaphor for a machine producing a never-ending stream of random letters and symbols. And, it has to be s...
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