![]() ![]() The best way to consider the staggering improbability of finding a true doppelgänger is to imagine the amount of genetic variables that would have line up just right for one to exist. When you multiply probabilities together, the chances of something actually happening disappear very, very quickly." But already by the second letter the chance has shrunk to one in 676 (26 x 26) and by the end of the fourth line (22 letters) it's one in 13 quintillion. ![]() Ignoring grammar, the monkey has a one in 26 chance of correctly typing the first letter of Macbeth. "It's a mathematical certainty, but reversing the problem reveals just how staggeringly long the monkey would have to toil. According to the BBC's Zaria Gorvett, doppelgängers can be explained by the infinite monkey problem, which states that if you sit a monkey in a room with a typewriter for an infinite amount of time it will – at some point – pen the works of Shakespeare. Which means that there's definitely a mathematical chance for two doppelgängers to exist, but it's highly unlikely. The team concluded that the chances of someone looking exactly like someone else in all eight features is about one in 1 trillion. ![]()
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