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\u201cAlas, poor ape, how thou sweat\u2019st!\u201d<\/p>\n

Colin Waters\/Alamy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

If every chimpanzee on Earth were given a typewriter, they wouldn\u2019t reproduce the works of William Shakespeare even if they kept on typing until the heat death of the universe, researchers have calculated.<\/p>\n

The so-called infinite monkey theorem states that if you had an infinite number of primates<\/a>, or one primate had infinite time, they would almost certainly type out every possible text an infinite number of times.<\/p>\n

The origins of the theorem are obscure, but it is commonly attributed\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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