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Welcome to the Infinite Monkey Cage, a science show

that offers no guarantees due to the uncertainty

of the world and the universe beyond it,

both statistically and in a quantum mechanical sense.

So this all could be conjecture,

but good, solid, empirical conjecture, nevertheless.

I'm Robin Inc.

And I'm Brian Cox.

This week we're going to be looking at randomness,

probability and chance.

So in the absolutely literal spirit

of one possible meaning of the potentially infinite set

of meanings, both real and imagined of infinite monkey cage,

we took a tumbola wheel with all the letters

of the alphabet on it, spun it 21 times,

noted down each letter and created a title.

It was the infinite monkey cage.

What are the chances of that?

One of the 26 is a pair of 21.

Yeah, and I should actually be honest and say

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