On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 09:22 AM, Lane Roathe wrote:
on Fri, Aug 29, 2003 LuKreme (List User Kreme) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> may have said:
<1> someone once theorised that an infinite number of monkeys would produce the collected works of Shakespeare. The Internet, alas, has disproved that theory.
Actually, the internet has proven this to be true. What the theorem
doesn't explicitly state is that you must do a grep for the work, as the
work in total is spread throughout the infinite number of words produces
by the infinite monkeys.
While an infinite number of monkeys is not available, the theory is being/has been tested to a limited extent:
http://www.arn.org/docs2/news/monkeysandtypewriters051103.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/3013959.stm http://www.vivaria.net/experiments/notes/documentation/
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