Can a monkey typing randomly have any chance of randomly typing Hamlet?

If a monkey is typing randomly on a keyboard, then it would probably just smack the keyboard many times.

For calculating purposes, let us include all keys on a keyboard that can be potentially hit

The total amount of keys is 104. The monkey must hit 6 of these in a particular order. If striking exactly 6 keys, the answer is absurdly small.

Out of (104^6) ways to type 6 keys, Hamlet is one possibility or

1 out of 1,265,319,018,000

or

.000000000079%

But when typing for an infinite amout of time until Hamlet shows up, the possibility of that happening is 100%. I guarantee it. This is because the monkey typing is doing it for an INFINITE amount of time, but, if the monkey dies at age 100 (he's a healthy monkey), and he types on 3 keys every second on average and never stops until he dies, then he will have typed

180 keys per minute

10,800 keys per hour

259,200 keys per day

94,608,000 keys per year

If born this year, 2006 (for leap year's sake) then the monkey will have typed 9,467,280,000 keys

To find "Hamlet" in that mess, the chances are........

actually i have no idea how to find that out

given the age of the universe, which may live forever the chances are 100%

Depends entirely on how fast monkeys can type and whether we permit gobbeldygook around the shakespeare. That is, if they are given X characters to type, and they're supposed to sit down and type Hamlet immediately, then stop, it's far less likely than if we let them type for a while, then do Hamlet, then go onto something else (pop song lyrics?).

OK, tired of thinking of this now.

Typing Hamlet completely? With no typo's ... Have you looked at the way some people type on here??? Isn't that proof enough that some of these so called more intelligent than monkey like creatures who can't believe in evolution can't type for .... and you think a monkey could type Hamlet. I don't think so.

If life came into being through evolving chance, then a dictionary came into being from an explosion in the print shop and Hamlet was invented by a Monkey on the plant of apes:>) RIGHT?

Look at a key board. Recognize that hamlet is a sequence of letters,spaces and returns. So can you randomly peck at a key board an find the same sequence that Shakespere created. You bet. Although you can imagine it is extremely improbable. Given an infinite set of monkeys infinitiy to do it and you will get infinite copies back - You will also get infinite copies that have one work misspelled)

- You make me bear those ills I have, than fly to others I know not of

Hmmm...to lazy to search it...but i suppose anything is possible, though I really doubt a monkey could just happen to type hamlet.

Monkeys can be trained to understand sign language and are very dexterous with their hands. figure this, hypnosis and subliminal manipulation we could probably train a monkey to be president. Oh yeah we already did that.

Vin

Statistically, yes.... but the chance is very very unlikeley. Heres and example

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not quite Hamlet is it?