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The Monkey Shakespeare Simulator "If you have enough monkeys banging randomly on typewriters, they will eventually type the works of William Shakespeare." Become part of the largest ever experiment to see if this is true! Every time you display this page, you are automatically participating in the M onkey Shakespeare project. Your computer is put to work to simulate a nu mber of monkeys typing randomly on typewriters, and each page typed is c hecked against every play Shakespeare ever wrote! The longer you display this page, the longer the simulator runs, and the better the chance you have of beating the record!
Pen Why have the monkeys typed so few letters of Shakespeare? The odds against monkeys typing Shakespeare by chance are astronomical. W ith about 80 typewriter keys, the chance of getting the first letter rig ht is about 80 to 1 The chance of getting 2 letters right is 1 in 8080 , or 6400 to 1 Each letter increases the odds against by 80 times. The odds of getting 10 letters right is about 11 million million million to1 . To make sure that the simulator creates interesting results within our lifetimes, it is designed to run at an accelerated rate of 1 day every second. And, more importantly, the population of monkeys is allowed to i ncrease exponentially! The number of monkeys doubles every few days, whi ch doubles the speed at which they can produce pages - so come back now and again to see how they are getting on and to put your own monkeys to work. About the simulator In the simulator, time passes 86,400 times faster than real life. Each mo nkey is assumed to press 1 typewriter key per second, and each page requ ires 2000 keystrokes. In between typing, the monkeys find time to procre ate and increase their number. The starting point for this project is 1 July 2003, when there were 100 monkeys, and the increase in population ( which is independent of whether or not any simulators are running) is co ntinuously updated. There is no limit to the number of monkeys as they h ave an unlimited supply of bananas. The longer you run the simulator, th e better your chances of getting a record result. What to do if you get a record result If you get a record result, press the "Submit record" button and email it to us, and tell us your name and where you live. If you are the first w ith a new record, we'll put your name on this site. If two people get the same number of lett ers, it is the one we receive first that counts, even if the other one h as an earlier date on it. Note that the button doesn't work if you don't have a record.
Put "Monkey Shakespea re Simulator" in the subject line. It is important that you send us the whole of the results box. Then press Ctrl C (that is, while holding down the C trl key, press C). To paste the text into your email, press Ctrl V) The best monkey results so far 1 letter from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Sent in by anonymous from Leice ster, England on 25 July 2003. Proceed Solinu s to procure my fall, And by the doome of death end woes and all" 4 letters from "The Winter's Tale" after 195 monkey-years. If you shall chan ce (Camillo) to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my seruices are now on-foot, you shall see (as I haue said) great difference betwixt our Bohemia, and your Sicilia" 5 letters from "Cymbeline" after 3,928 monkey-years. Our bloods no more obey the Heauens Then our Courti ers: Still seeme, as do's the Kings" 6 letters from "King John" after 86,339 monkey-years. Sent in by Martin f rom High Wycombe, UK on 30 July 2003. Thus (after greeting) speakes the King of France, In my behauiour to the Maiesty, The borrowed Maiesty of England heere" 7 letters from "King John" after 2,737,851 monkey-years. Thus (after greeting) speakes the King of France, I n my behauiour to the Maiesty, The borrowed Maiesty of England heere" 8 letters from "Cymbeline" after 598,877 monkey-years. Sent in by Tim Joy ce, Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 24 Aug 2003. Our bloods no more obey the Heauens Then our Court iers: Still seeme, as do's the Kings" 9 letters from "All's Well That End's Well" after 315,072,000 monkey-year s Sent in by Robert Stephen Mayer Jr, Portland OR, USA on 18 Sept 2003. In deliv ering my son from me, I bury a second husband." So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant And breathe short-winde d accents of new broils" 11 letters from "Antony and Cleopatra" after 505,920,000 monkey-years. " 12 letters from "All's Well That Ends Well" after 2,236,400 billion monke y-years. " 13 letters from "Measure For Measure" after 6,146,950 billion monkey-yea rs. " 14 letters from "Coriolanus" after 4,651,360,000 billion monkey-years. Se nt in by Bill Herrin from Hannibal, MO, USA on 24 Feb 2004. " 15 letters from "Pericles" after 958,399,000,000 billion monkey-years. Se nt in by Ken Phillips from Roseville, California on 12 April 2004.
To sing a song that old was sung, From as hes ancient Gower is come; Assuming man's infirmities, To glad your ear, and please your eyes." Sent in by Pierre-Franois Cohadon of Paris, France on 11 May 2004. Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster, Hast thou, according to thy oath and band, Brought hither Henry Hereford, thy bold son, Here to make good the boist'rous late appeal" 17 letters from "Troilus and Cressida" after 9,151,670 billion billion mo nkey-years. Sent in by Phumpraj Manaspiti of Bangkok, Thailand on 8 June 2004.
" 18 letters from "Timon of Athens" after 2,182,280,000 billion billion mon key-years. Sent in by Steve McCormick of Pittsburgh, PA, USA on 13 July 2004. " 19 letters from "Two Gentlemen of Verona" after 42,162,500,000 billion bi llion monkey-years. Sent in by Dan Oliver from Scottsdale, AZ, USA on 4 Aug 2004. Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus: Home-keeping youth h ave ever homely wits. " 20 letters from "Coriolanus" after 462,060,000,000 billion billion monkey -years. Sent in by Jens Ulrik Jacobsen from Denmark on 31 Aug 2004. " 21 letters from "Love's Labour's Lost" after 1,653,110 million billion bi llion monkey-years. " 22 letters from "Cymbeline" after 579,440 billion billion billion monkey- years. " NOTE: BEFORE SUBMITTING A RECORD: Your web browser may be showing you an out-of-date copy of this web page which doesn't show you the latest reco rds! Unfortunately we just get too many to rep ly to all of them, but we'll try to answer most questions in the "Freqen tly Asked Questions" section below. And thanks for all the page visits - now well past the 100,000 mark!
It is called Scientific Notation and it is a shorthand way of writing ver y large numbers. "e+53" means "move the decimal point 53 places to the right". So 45692e+53 is equal to 456,920,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000. Your web browser may b e showing you an out-of-date copy of this web page that it has saved to your hard disk instead of downloading the latest page for you to see. If you are using Internet Explorer, you can force it to show the latest pa ge by doing the following: 1) In the menu, choose: "Tools>Internet Options".
gif" that it ha s saved to your hard disk instead of downloading the latest version. If you are using Internet Explorer, you can fix this by doing the following : 1) In the menu, choose: "Tools>Internet Options". Shouldn't the number of monkeys I have under my control grow more quickly ? I got the same number of letters in fewer monkey years than anybody else. The rules could be different so that matches anywhere on a page count. In fact there are many possible variations of the rules, and there are bou nd to be disagreements on which rule is chosen. In any case, if a whole page is going to match, then the first few letters will have to match to o What does the graph show? Each bar in the graph represents one day and its height shows the longest match found that day. The simulator on your computer produces unique results that only you can see. I happened to leave the page - is my simulation back to square one again? No, don't worry (unless you already had a record result and you didn't se nd it in, then it will be lost). But you are just as likely to get a rec ord in the next 10 mi...
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