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That Time Someone Actually Tested the Infinite Monkey Theorem And Who Came Up With It (2020x33)
Air date: Feb 14, 2020
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The idea that given enough time, even completely random activity could produce something complex goes back at least a couple thousand years, though not without its detractors even then. For example, Cicero states in his De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) in 45 BC:
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http://www.themarysue.com/odds-of-monkey-hamlet/
http://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-history.html
http://creation.com/could-monkeys-type-the-23rd-psalm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/02/2/l_022_09.html
http://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=jonathan-smith-the-huxley-wilberforce-debate-on-evolution-30-june-1860
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
https://archive.org/stream/lifeandletterst13huxlgoog/lifeandletterst1
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