Six Monkeys Writing Shakespeare
May 10th, 2003
Students from the University of Plymouth managed to get a grant of £2000 from the Arts Council to test the hypothesis that an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite amount of time could reproduce the works of Shakespeare.
However, they seemed to lack the resources to attain an infinite supply of monkeys, and with a lack of patience to wait for an infinite amount of time, they instead had to make do with six monkeys for a month. Unfortunately the monkeys “failed to come up with anything that remotely resembled a word”.
The “scientific officer” at the zoo, has somehow decided that this manages “to show that the ‘infinite monkey’ theory is flawed.”
