Could thousands of monkeys, pounding typewriters without rhyme or reason, write the complete works of William Shakespeare ? So the theory goes, but Jesse Anderson wanted to test it in practice. To do this, this American software developer has created "digital monkeys" to develop a computer simulation of the infinite monkey theorem. And since they began to "write" last August 21, he assures that he has already completed Querellas of a lover (A Lover's Complaint), a narrative poem by the English writer, and the comedy La Tempestad (The Tempest).
Your virtual primates introduce a series of random inconsistencies . When a part of the text matches a word used in the catalog of Shakespeare's complete works, it is crossed over in a database of plays and poems. The database comes from Project Gutenberg.
According to Anderson on his blog, there is little left to finish the comedy As You Like It . The monkeys will continue typing until the Shakespeare play has been created entirely at random.
