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A being from the planet Infinity Gouda took over the mind of Bob K and
proceeded to write:

> On 4 Oct 1997 22:50:21 GMT, "William L. Bahn" <ba...@pcisys.net> wrote:

-->Let's see. How long would it take a million monkeys typing 100 
-->characters a
-->second each to eventually come up with the string "Romeo and Juliet"?
-->That's only sixteen characters since I'm not requiring there to be a 
-->space
-->in front and the space in back. Let's assume that there are 60 
-->characters
-->(each equally likely to be hit by our monkeys) in the set to allow 
-->for
-->upper and lower case, the space key and a sparse set of punctuation 
-->marks -
-->no numbers even. How long for these million monkeys to pull off that 
-->feat
-->randomly - about once every ten trillion years. Of course that goes 
-->up to
-->once every 32,000 trillion years if I require a space in front and a 
-->space
-->in back. Get the idea.

> So it would probably take more than 32,000 trillion years to get all
> of Shakespeare- not really that much time out of forever.

> Bob K (delete NOSPAM to reply by email)

Are these British or American trillions?

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   Lewis Bateman   mhm 15x11   lbat...@hotmail.com   H
                  Revolution in Reaction

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