The infinite monkey theorem is the observation that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will eventually type any given text, for example the complete works of William Shakespeare. The same thing can be achieved by an infinite number of monkeys in a finite amount of time.
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