Two Australian mathematicians have deemed it misleading, working out that even if all the chimpanzees in the world were given the entire lifespan of the universe, they would “almost certainly” never pen the works of the bard.

all the chimpanzees in the world

infinite monkeys

I'm glad they had fun doing some math, but this is not news, nor is the original saying misleading. With an infinite number of monkeys, a smaller-yet-still-infinite number of them would produce the works of Shakespeare. The reason this saying works is because of the concept of infinity, not some random finite number.

What part of "infinite" was unclear in the instructions?

If you actually had infinite monkeys it would be the first thing a very large (infinite) amount would type.

Kind of selfish of that monkey really.

i think that milestone has already been achieved -- at least in terms of the expected quality of the final manuscript.

have you read the da vinci code?

We already had a monkey write Shakespeare. His name was William Shakespeare.

• we are primates

• one already wrote shakespeare

I call false on the findings