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From: Einar Andreas Rdland
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 00:00

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Kevin D. Quitt wrote:
> 
> On 18 Sep 1997 15:37:56 GMT, tph@longhorn.uucp (Tom Harrington) wrote:
> 
> >Jacob Love (jl...@engin.umich.edu) wrote:
> >...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.
> 
> Really?  And where on Usenet has that been disproven?

Thanks to Usenet, we HAVE had a large number of monkeys banging
on typewrites for a number of years, and all they've come up with
is rubbish like "Bible codes", "pi = 3,1416 EXACTLY !" and
"Surveyor and Cydonia"... :-)


Einar


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Einar Andreas Rodland               E-mail: ein...@math.uio.no
University of Oslo, Norway
Departement of Mathematics          http://www.math.uio.no/~einara

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From: Einar Andreas R|dland <ein...@ulrik.uio.no>
Subject: Re: Bible codes
Date: 1997/09/25
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