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From: tes@whuts.UUCP
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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
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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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
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  ---------    {harvard|allegra|ulysses|ihnp4}!whuts!tes
    -----         [opinions are obviously only my own]