Re: Bible codes

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From: Justin M Skoczek
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 00:00

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On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Hotel Sans Vice wrote:

> 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.

What if the monkey only banged on some of the keys? Nevermind. The
universe would probably collapse (depending on mass of universe) before
the monkey got very far.

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From: Justin M Skoczek <jus...@csd.uwm.edu>
Subject: Re: Bible codes
Date: 1997/09/25
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970925164202.18626C-100000@alpha3.csd.uwm.edu>
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