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 参考背景: And this illustration often used is the one of the monkeys at the typewriters. OK so we have a monkey sitting at a typewriter and the claim here is basically if you leave chance and time long enough you will get life. Don’t worry about it, yes, it’s strange, yes it’s wonderful, but leaves enough matter 600 million years on earth and you will have life. So, the monkey sitting in the typewriter in the chances are eventually he produces the complete works of Shakespeare so what’s the problem. So there’s no problem there isn’t an issue right you just leave him long enough you’ll be fine and at one keystroke a second the monkey might will eventually get to the complete works of Shakespeare but he doesn’t manage to do it in 600 million years so what decided to do to run the numbers is I instead of saying type the complete works of Shakespeare just ran the numbers for how long would it take a monkey typing at one keystroke a second to type to be or not to be that is the question. And when I ran the numbers to be or not to be that is the question takes twelve point six trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion years to type just that phrase and a DNA string which you have to fill out the life we have now doesn’t emerge in is not like I sentences worth of information a DNA string has got as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.