Infinite monkey theorem (English Wikipedia)

Examples of the theorem being referred to as proverbial include: Schooler, Jonathan W.; Dougal, Sonya (1999). "Why creativity is not like the proverbial typing monkey". Psychological Inquiry. 10 (4).; and Koestler, Arthur (1972). The Case of the Midwife Toad. New York. p. 30. Neo-Darwinism does indeed carry the nineteenth-century brand of materialism to its extreme limits – to the proverbial monkey at the typewriter, hitting by pure chance on the proper keys to produce a Shakespeare sonnet.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) The latter is sourced from "Parable of the Monkeys"., a collection of historical references to the theorem in various formats.

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Borel, Émile (1914). La hasard (in French). Paris: Félix Alcan. p. 164. Alt URL
Arthur Eddington (1928). The Nature of the Physical World: The Gifford Lectures. New York: Macmillan. p. 72. ISBN 0-8414-3885-4. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
The English translation of "The Total Library" lists the title of Swift's essay as "Trivial Essay on the Faculties of the Soul". The appropriate reference is, instead: Swift, Jonathan, Temple Scott et al. "A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind." The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Volume 1. London: G. Bell, 1897, pp. 291-296. Internet Archive
Padmanabhan, Thanu (2005). "The dark side of astronomy". Nature. 435 (7038): 20–21. Bibcode:2005Natur.435...20P. doi:10.1038/435020a. Platt, Suzy (1993). Respectfully quoted: a dictionary of quotations. Barnes & Noble. pp. 388–389. ISBN 0-88029-768-9.
Dawkins, Richard (1996). The Blind Watchmaker. W.W. Norton & Co. pp. 46–50. ISBN 0-393-31570-3.
Genette, Gérard (1997). The Work of Art: Immanence and Transcendence. Cornell UP. ISBN 0-8014-8272-0.

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"No words to describe monkeys' play". BBC News. 2003-05-09. Retrieved 2009-07-25.

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Borel, Émile (1914). La hasard (in French). Paris: Félix Alcan. p. 164. Alt URL
Rescher, Nicholas (2006). Studies in the Philosophy of Science: A Counterfactual Perspective on Quantum Entanglement. Ontos Verlag. p. 103. ISBN 978-3-11-032646-8.
Lewis, Bob (1997-06-02). "It's time for some zoning laws in today's version of the Old West: the Web". Enterprise Computing, IS Survival Guide. InfoWorld. Vol. 19, no. 22. InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. p. 84. ISSN 0199-6649. May also be in "Bob Lewis's IS Survival Guide", published March 19, 1999, ISBN 978-0672314377{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

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Borel, Émile (1913). "La mécanique statique et l'irréversibilité". Journal de Physique Théorique et Appliquée (in French). 3 (1): 189–196. doi:10.1051/jphystap:019130030018900. ISSN 0368-3893. Concevons qu'on ait dressé un million de singes à frapper au hasard sur les touches d'une machine à écrire et que […] ces singes dactylographes travaillent avec ardeur dix heures par jour avec un million de machines à écrire de types variés. […] Au bout d'un an, [leurs] volumes se trouveraient renfermer la copie exacte des livres de toute nature et de toutes langues conservés dans les plus riches bibliothèques du monde.
Padmanabhan, Thanu (2005). "The dark side of astronomy". Nature. 435 (7038): 20–21. Bibcode:2005Natur.435...20P. doi:10.1038/435020a. Platt, Suzy (1993). Respectfully quoted: a dictionary of quotations. Barnes & Noble. pp. 388–389. ISBN 0-88029-768-9.
Conrad, B.; Mitzenmacher, M. (July 2004). "Power laws for monkeys typing randomly: the case of unequal probabilities". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 50 (7): 1403–1414. Bibcode:2004ITIT...50.1403C. doi:10.1109/TIT.2004.830752. ISSN 1557-9654. S2CID 8913575.
p. 126 of The Principles of Art, as summarized and quoted by Sclafani, Richard J. (1975). "The logical primitiveness of the concept of a work of art". British Journal of Aesthetics. 15 (1): 14. doi:10.1093/bjaesthetics/15.1.14.
Marsaglia, George; Zaman, Arif (1993). "Monkey tests for random number generators". Computers & Mathematics with Applications. 26 (9). Elsevier, Oxford: 1–10. doi:10.1016/0898-1221(93)90001-C. ISSN 0898-1221.

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Eddington, Arthur. "Chapter IV: The Running-Down of the Universe". The Nature of the Physical World 1926–1927: The Gifford Lectures. Archived from the original on 2009-03-08. Retrieved 2012-01-22.

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Inglis-Arkell, Esther (June 9, 2011). "The story of the Monkey Shakespeare Simulator Project". io9. gizmodo. Retrieved 24 February 2016.

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Using the Hamlet text "from gutenberg.org"., there are 132680 alphabetical letters and 199749 characters overall
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De natura deorum, 2.37. Translation from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations; Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth, C. D. Yonge, principal translator, New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, Franklin Square. (1877). Downloadable text.

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Jorge Luis Borges, "The Total Library", 1939. Anthologized in Selected Non-fictions (1999). Edited by Eliot Weinberger. New York: Viking

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Borel, Émile (1913). "La mécanique statique et l'irréversibilité". Journal de Physique Théorique et Appliquée (in French). 3 (1): 189–196. doi:10.1051/jphystap:019130030018900. ISSN 0368-3893. Concevons qu'on ait dressé un million de singes à frapper au hasard sur les touches d'une machine à écrire et que […] ces singes dactylographes travaillent avec ardeur dix heures par jour avec un million de machines à écrire de types variés. […] Au bout d'un an, [leurs] volumes se trouveraient renfermer la copie exacte des livres de toute nature et de toutes langues conservés dans les plus riches bibliothèques du monde.

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Padmanabhan, Thanu (2005). "The dark side of astronomy". Nature. 435 (7038): 20–21. Bibcode:2005Natur.435...20P. doi:10.1038/435020a. Platt, Suzy (1993). Respectfully quoted: a dictionary of quotations. Barnes & Noble. pp. 388–389. ISBN 0-88029-768-9.
Conrad, B.; Mitzenmacher, M. (July 2004). "Power laws for monkeys typing randomly: the case of unequal probabilities". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 50 (7): 1403–1414. Bibcode:2004ITIT...50.1403C. doi:10.1109/TIT.2004.830752. ISSN 1557-9654. S2CID 8913575.

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"Monkey Typewriter". Microsoft Store Apps. Balanced Software. 2015-11-16. 9NBLGGH69FC8. Retrieved 2022-02-14.

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Acocella, Joan (9 April 2007). "The typing life: How writers used to write". The New Yorker. – a review of Wershler-Henry, Darren (2007). The Iron Whim: A fragmented history of typewriting. Cornell University Press.

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As explained at "More monkeys". Archived from the original on 18 April 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2013. The problem can be approximated further: 10¹⁴⁵/log₁₀(64) = 78.9 characters.

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Boyce Rensberger (March 6, 1979). "Computer Says Monkeys Couldn't Write 'Hamlet'—At Least Not So Far". The New York Times.

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Susan Ratcliffe, ed. (2016), "Robert Wilensky 1951–American academic", Oxford Essential Quotations, Oxford University Press, in Mail on Sunday 16 February 1997 'Quotes of the Week'

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Conrad, B.; Mitzenmacher, M. (July 2004). "Power laws for monkeys typing randomly: the case of unequal probabilities". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 50 (7): 1403–1414. Bibcode:2004ITIT...50.1403C. doi:10.1109/TIT.2004.830752. ISSN 1557-9654. S2CID 8913575.

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"Notes towards the complete works of Shakespeare". vivaria.net. 2002. Archived from the original on 2007-07-16. – some press clippings.
"Notes Towards the Complete Works of Shakespeare" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-18.

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Ringle, Ken (28 October 2002). "Hello? This is Bob". The Washington Post. p. C01. Archived from the original on 15 November 2002.

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As explained at "More monkeys". Archived from the original on 18 April 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2013. The problem can be approximated further: 10¹⁴⁵/log₁₀(64) = 78.9 characters.
Eddington, Arthur. "Chapter IV: The Running-Down of the Universe". The Nature of the Physical World 1926–1927: The Gifford Lectures. Archived from the original on 2009-03-08. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
"Notes towards the complete works of Shakespeare". vivaria.net. 2002. Archived from the original on 2007-07-16. – some press clippings.
"Notes Towards the Complete Works of Shakespeare" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-18.
K., Alfred (April 2013). "Finite Monkeys Don't Type: A story about the interpretations of probability". Alfred K. Archived from the original on 2022-03-31. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
"Monkeys don't write Shakespeare". Wired News. 2003-05-09. Archived from the original on 2004-02-01. Retrieved 2007-03-02.
Hoffmann, Ute; Hofmann, Jeanette (2001). "Monkeys, Typewriters and Networks" (PDF). Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH (WZB). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-05-13.
Ringle, Ken (28 October 2002). "Hello? This is Bob". The Washington Post. p. C01. Archived from the original on 15 November 2002.

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"Monkeys don't write Shakespeare". Wired News. 2003-05-09. Archived from the original on 2004-02-01. Retrieved 2007-03-02.
Lorge, Greta (May 2007). "The best thought experiments: Schrödinger's cat, Borel's monkeys". Wired. Vol. 15, no. 6.

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Zenil, Hector and Soler-Toscano, Fernando (October 2013). "Infinite Monkey Theorem". Wolfram Demonstrations Project. Retrieved May 24, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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Borel, Émile (1913). "La mécanique statique et l'irréversibilité". Journal de Physique Théorique et Appliquée (in French). 3 (1): 189–196. doi:10.1051/jphystap:019130030018900. ISSN 0368-3893. Concevons qu'on ait dressé un million de singes à frapper au hasard sur les touches d'une machine à écrire et que […] ces singes dactylographes travaillent avec ardeur dix heures par jour avec un million de machines à écrire de types variés. […] Au bout d'un an, [leurs] volumes se trouveraient renfermer la copie exacte des livres de toute nature et de toutes langues conservés dans les plus riches bibliothèques du monde.
Isaac, Richard E. (1995). The Pleasures of Probability. New York: Springer. pp. 48–50. ISBN 0-387-94415-X. OCLC 610945749– Isaac generalizes this argument immediately to variable text and alphabet size; the common main conclusion is on page 50.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
Kittel, Charles; Kroemer, Herbert (1980). Thermal Physics (2nd ed.). San Francisco: W.H. Freeman Company. p. 53. ISBN 0-7167-1088-9. OCLC 5171399.
Conrad, B.; Mitzenmacher, M. (July 2004). "Power laws for monkeys typing randomly: the case of unequal probabilities". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 50 (7): 1403–1414. Bibcode:2004ITIT...50.1403C. doi:10.1109/TIT.2004.830752. ISSN 1557-9654. S2CID 8913575.
Marsaglia, George; Zaman, Arif (1993). "Monkey tests for random number generators". Computers & Mathematics with Applications. 26 (9). Elsevier, Oxford: 1–10. doi:10.1016/0898-1221(93)90001-C. ISSN 0898-1221.
Lewis, Bob (1997-06-02). "It's time for some zoning laws in today's version of the Old West: the Web". Enterprise Computing, IS Survival Guide. InfoWorld. Vol. 19, no. 22. InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. p. 84. ISSN 0199-6649. May also be in "Bob Lewis's IS Survival Guide", published March 19, 1999, ISBN 978-0672314377{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

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Hoffmann, Ute; Hofmann, Jeanette (2001). "Monkeys, Typewriters and Networks" (PDF). Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH (WZB). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-05-13.

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