The typing monkeys scenario postulates that, given enough time, the works of William Shakespeare could be produced as the result of a random process acting on a typewriter. The original scenario relies on calculations from classical probability. The newly postulated scenario stages a literary competition amongst typing monkeys by applying methods from information theory and algorithmic complexity theory in order to judge a representative work of William Shakespeare against a representative work of James Joyce. Graduate level theoretical computer science collides with literary criticism.
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