>>> And whoever said it was a theory in the
>>> first place? :-D
>>   Actually there's no law of mathematics or physics which says that an
>> infinite number of monkeys will produce the works of Shakespeare (especially
>> given that the problem is incomplete: The amount of time is unspecified).
> 
> That's what I was getting at... it's not really a theory, more a
> pop-thought-experiment. And a badly-formulated one, as you've pointed out.

More like, it's a precise mathematical statement, rendered casually as 
"if you gave a monkey infinite time to randomly type stuff"... which is 
rather less precise. And quite probably wrong in a number of ways. (For 
starters, monkeys don't type statistically random text...)

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