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From: stefan@wheaton.UUCP (Stefan Brandle)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: looking for reference for "British Museum" quote
Message-ID: <372@wheaton.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Jan-87 16:36:25 EST
Article-I.D.: wheaton.372
Posted: Sat Jan  3 16:36:25 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Jan-87 22:36:43 EST
References: <355@unc.unc.UUCP> <3800001@nucsrl.UUCP>
Reply-To: stefan@wheaton.UUCP (Stefan Brandle)
Organization: Wheaton College, Wheaton IL.
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In article <3800001@nucsrl.UUCP> ram@nucsrl.UUCP (raman renukanthan) writes:
>>>re: Missing quotation, monkeys in the basement                          
>>>                                                                        
>>>"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."            

Does anyone seriously believe this?  I don't make any pretense of being
an expert on stats, but my little knowledge of combinatorics would
indicate that the idea is crazy.

Please set me right if I have missed something.

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Stefan Brandle                                 UUCP:  ihnp4!wheaton!stefan      
Wheaton College                                "But I never claimed to be sane!"
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