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In soc.culture.jewish on 12 Sep 1997 19:26:13 GMT
jl...@engin.umich.edu (Jacob Love) posted:


>In article <01bcbfa4$86539e60$4334b9ce@juddesk>,
>Judson D. McClendon <ju...@mindspring.com> wrote:

>[Replying to others]

>>You apparently haven't studied the original article in Statistical Review. 

>[Balance of irrelevant material deleted]

First part commented on by Micha.

>In addition to this critical point, Brendan McKay is in the process
>of publishing, and has made his research freely available, a 
>refutation of the other saliant point of the article, namely that
>such codes are sui generis. Rather, similar such "codes" can be
>found in *any* text of sufficient length.

With the same level of closeness?  Let's wait till his piece is
published.

>In other words, the whole long-winded nonsense is simily a lengthy
>demonstration of the infamous statistical point that if given a long
>enough time, a monkey would produce the works of Shakespeare by banging
>on a typewriter. Drosnin, of course, is laughing all the way to the
>bank.
>-- 
It is not quite that the monkeys need to be given a long enough time.
They need an *infinite* time, and I think that the point of that tale
is not to say something about monkeys or Shakespeare, but to say
something about infinity.  At any rate the Torah is far from infinite,
so, except for the last sentence, I think this last paragraph doesn't
apply at all.

>-----------------------
>Jack F. Love
>Opinions expressed are mine alone, unless you happen to agree


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