What Do Monkeys Know, Anyway.
Researchers at Plymouth University decided to test the old saying that if one sat an infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of keyboards, one of them eventually would tap out some Shakespeare. They left six monkeys in a laboratory with computers and shut the door. The monkeys typed the alp...
| Publicado en: | Literary Cavalcade Vol. 56; no. 2; p. 4 |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
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Scholastic Inc.
Oct2003
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| Sumario: | Researchers at Plymouth University decided to test the old saying that if one sat an infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of keyboards, one of them eventually would tap out some Shakespeare. They left six monkeys in a laboratory with computers and shut the door. The monkeys typed the alphabet S, mostly. They also typed alphabets A, J, L and M. They also defecated and urinated all over the keyboard. |
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