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In soc.culture.jewish on Wed, 17 Sep 1997 15:55:01 GMT Ke...@Quitt.net
(Kevin D. Quitt) posted:


>On Sun, 14 Sep 1997 05:05:49 GMT, mei...@erols.com wrote:
>>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.

>Your last comment is correct, but you have the rest of it backwards.  They
>don't need an infinite amount of time or an infinite number of monkeys.
>But given infinite time, you *will* get Shakespeare.  You might get it
>next week, or in 10^14 years, or in a really, really long time.  Given an
>infinite number of monkeys, you'll have your Shakespeare in the day or
>week it takes of the monkeys to type it.  You'll also have an infinite
>number of copies that each have one of the letters wrong, and two, etc.


>>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.

>Good.  I was nit-picking, anyway.

What's a little nit-picking between us monkeys.  I see your points.  I
told it the way I heard it.  Maybe only some of the monkeys start
typing the first day, and the others stand by in reserve, for when the
monkeys keel over.  Where are they doing this?  I'm surprised PETA
hasn't done something about this.  :)


 
meir