Understanding the Infinite Monkey Theorem

Absurdities of Probability Theory and why you cannot trust your gut instinct when guessing probabilities

Maike Elisa
Towards Data Science
5 min readNov 29, 2019

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Imagine you have an infinite amount of monkeys. And now you give each of these monkeys a laptop and let them type randomly for an infinite amount of time. What are the chances that at some point, this story will show up on any of the laptops because any of the monkeys typed it by chance?

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