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From: csma@lifia.UUCP (Christian de Sainte Marie)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: looking for reference for "British Museum" quote
Message-ID: <1281@lifia.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Jan-87 20:15:57 EST
Article-I.D.: lifia.1281
Posted: Tue Jan 13 20:15:57 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 14-Jan-87 06:02:13 EST
References: <355@unc.unc.UUCP> <3800001@nucsrl.UUCP> <1171@whuts.UUCP>
Reply-To: csma@lifia.UUCP (Christian de Sainte Marie)
Organization: LIFIA-IMAG, Un. of Grenoble, France
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>In article <3800001@nucsrl.UUCP>, ram@nucsrl.UUCP (raman renukanthan) writes:
>> >>"If a hundred chimpanzees were to be set before a hundred typewriters   
>> >>typing for thousands of years at random.  They would eventually         
>> >>duplicate all of the works contained in the British Museum."            

I know of a slightly modified quote:
"If you put a chimp before a typewriter and if he types randomly and the
output is the first chapter of "Therese Desqueyroux", you made an error:
it is not a chimpanzee, it is Francois Mauriac"
(from "the little encyclopedy to comfort the good-for-nothings" by
  Cavana)

PS: does this discussion really belongs to comp.ai?

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