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===Simulated and limited conditions=== In 1979, [[William R. Bennett Jr.]], a profesor of [[physics]] at [[Yale University]], brought fresh attention to the theorem by applying a series of computer programs. Dr. Bennett simulated varying conditions under which an imaginary monkey, given a keyboard consisting of twenty-eight characters, and typing ten keys per second, might attempt to reproduce the sentence, "To be or not to be, that is the question." Although his experiments agreed with the overall conclusion that even such a short string of words would require many times the current age of the universe to reproduce, he noted that by modifying the statistical probability of certain letters to match the ordinary patterns of various languages and of Shakespeare in particular, seemingly random strings of words could be made to appear. But even with several refinements, the English sentence closest to the target phrase remained gibberish: "TO DEA NOW NAT TO BE WILL AND THEM BE DOES DOESORNS CAI AWROUTROULD."<ref>{{cite journal|date=March 6, 1979|author=Boyce Rensberger|title=Computer Says Monkeys Couldn't Write 'Hamlet'βAt Least Not So Far|journal=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/03/06/archives/computer-says-monkeys-couldnt-write-hamlet-at-least-not-so-far.html}}</ref>
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