VantaBrandon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTyping monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study findsphys.orgexternal-linkmessage-square197fedilinkarrow-up1597arrow-down148file-text
arrow-up1549arrow-down1external-linkTyping monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study findsphys.orgVantaBrandon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square197fedilinkfile-text
The question that everyone has been dying to know has been answered. Finally! What will scientists study next?
minus-squareNightwatch Admin@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·2 months agoSomeone wiser than me already said that it already has happened: 1 ape did, in fact, write the complete works of Shakespeare.
minus-squareCommanderCloon@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoApes are monkeys though, just like we’re apes and birds are dinosaurs
minus-squarescarabic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoWe are apes and birds are dinosaurs, but monkeys and apes are distinct categories under primates so no, apes are not monkeys.
minus-squareNightwatch Admin@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoFair enough. I wouldn’t want to insult the Librarian.
Someone wiser than me already said that it already has happened: 1 ape did, in fact, write the complete works of Shakespeare.
ape != monkey
Apes are monkeys though, just like we’re apes and birds are dinosaurs
We are apes and birds are dinosaurs, but monkeys and apes are distinct categories under primates so no, apes are not monkeys.
Fair enough. I wouldn’t want to insult the Librarian.
Ook
apes ⊂ monkeys, actually.
monkey c monkey do