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Could an Infinite Number of Monkeys Really Reproduce the Works of Shakespeare?

By Commonplace Fun Facts on March 19, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

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It has been said that if you give enough monkeys enough time to peck away at typewriters, they will eventually, through random chance, reproduce the works of William Shakespeare. That’s an interesting […]

Not in the Cards to Repeat a Shuffle

By Commonplace Fun Facts on January 5, 2016 • ( 1 Comment )

Photo credit: By Alan Cleaver (Flickr: Shuffling the deck) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons In a deck of 52 cards, there are 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 possible combinations. To give you an idea of […]