THERE GOES MY PLAN OF HIRING MONKEYS TO WRITE THIS COLUMN FOR ME

Bored college students continue the ongoing quest to discover if an infinite number of monkeys will ever write some Shakespeare. A few years ago an experiment in the UK which charted the creative output of six monkeys for a month concluded that the monkeys’ only talent was destroying the typewriters. So we turn to the virtual world for answers with the Monkey Shakespear Simulator, a program which replicates the random typing of a massive number of cyber-monkeys over billions of years. So far the monkeys have taken 2,737,850 million billion billion billion years to finally type the phrase “Rumour. Open your ears...” from Henry IV, Part 2. Statistical mathematicians estimate that you stand a better chance of winning the lottery a hundred times in a row than the infinite monkeys have of typing the phrase “To be or not to be, that is the question.” (Stuff.co.nz)