Watch this video for a lesson in probability.<\/p>\n
A genial professor asks, What are the odds that a monkey tapping away at a typewriter<\/a> keyboard<\/a> its whole life would type, \u201cTo be or not to be\u201d?<\/p>\n \u201dThat is the question,\u201d jokes the professor and we are told that a monkey typing three characters a second its entire life without any sleep would type in total 2.4 billion characters. Assuming random hitting of keys, the probability of the monkey typing the 18 character string, \u201cto be or not to be,\u201d in its lifetime is one in 20 million billion, or one in 2 x 1016<\/sup>.<\/p>\n