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Re: Bible codes

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From: Hotel Sans Vice
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?
> 

If you think about it, a monkey on a typewrite for ever would not only
write _Hamlet_ but all the works of Shakespeare and, indeed, all works
that have ever been written (inclusing this email) and all works that
could *ever* be written.

However, in practice, there wouldn't be enough room in the Universe to
house it all.

Steve.
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Subject: Re: Bible codes
Date: 1997/09/25
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