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Tom Harrington wrote:
> 
> Jacob Love (jl...@engin.umich.edu) wrote:
> 
> : 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.
> 
> Thanks to Usenet, we know that this oft-repeated idea is simply
> not true.  I don't know what implications this fact may have for
> the alleged Bible codes.

Well, it's sort of true. If there were something like 10^46 monkeys,
banging typewriters at random, chances are one of them would type
Polonius' quote from Hamlet: "methinks it is like a weasel." Extrapolate
for the entire works of Shakespeare and you get a staggeringly large
number of monkeys. Not that 10^46 isn't large - there isn't enough
matter in the universe to make that many monkeys.

That's what Richard Dawkins says, anyway.

ben "that's a lot of monkeys" w.