Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cuae2!ihnp4!houxm!whuts!tes From: tes@whuts.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: looking for reference for "British Museum" quote Message-ID: <1171@whuts.UUCP> Date: Wed, 31-Dec-86 18:33:11 EST Article-I.D.: whuts.1171 Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:33:11 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 1-Jan-87 04:33:43 EST References: <355@unc.unc.UUCP> <3800001@nucsrl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 14 Summary: another reference 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." A modified quote resulting in "all of William Shakepeares Works" was in either the book "How to Lie with Statistics" or its companion volume whose title I have forgotten. Both were 50's or very early 60's vintage books. Author long since forgotten. sorry for obscure reference, but I read these books 25 years ago. -- ----- Terry Sterkel -====---- AT&T Bell Laboratories --------- {harvard|allegra|ulysses|ihnp4}!whuts!tes ----- [opinions are obviously only my own]