Programmer Sets Out to Prove the "Million Monkey Theorem"

Jesse Anderson has harnessed the power of cloud computing in his goal of proving an old aphorism. There’s an old saying that dates from I don’t know when. It  has a number of variations, but generally reads something like this: “If a million monkeys sat at a million keyboards they would eventually type out the entire work of William Shakespeare”. Sometimes it’s an infinite number of monkeys, but the number isn’t so important here.