Checks out. You might have a million monkeys and a million typewriters, but you lack the infinite amount of time for random chance to produce anything legible.
(Also, don't think about who's proofreading the monkeys' results to collect and organize whatever is legible. Shhh! They'll just luck into typing in perfect grammar and a legible story with no typos. Don't think about it!)
Turns out they'd been hand waving the math the whole time.
Ten times the observed rate of mutation is still orders of magnitude more than the age of the planet.
Checks out. You might have a million monkeys and a million typewriters, but you lack the infinite amount of time for random chance to produce anything legible.
(Also, don't think about who's proofreading the monkeys' results to collect and organize whatever is legible. Shhh! They'll just luck into typing in perfect grammar and a legible story with no typos. Don't think about it!)
The published work for it is called Probability Zero, and bizarrely is available on Amazon.