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From: rjd@occrsh.ATT.COM (Randy_Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Computer Follies
Summary: Need monkeys
Message-ID: <367@occrsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 88 18:09:17 GMT
References: <1962@titan.camcon.co.uk> <6672@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: rjd@occrsh.UUCP (Randy_Davis)
Organization: AT&T Network & Data Systems, OKC
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In article <6672@dasys1.UUCP> tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:
:Mike Richardson's tale of the coffee-splattered drum printer that
:printed ASCII hash for a long time before slowly correcting itself
:leads me to wonder something: If you kept ladling coffee in at
:regular intervals, and kept the printer running indefinitely, would
:it eventually print out Shakespeare's entire oeuvre?

Naw, you would still need an infinite number of monkeys to do the ladeling,
wouldn't you?