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Article #632977Re: Bible codes
From: wen-... Wen-King Su
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 00:00
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In a previous article Cris Coleman <cr...@xmission.com> writes: ; :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? : ; : ; : ;Where's the monkey who has typed the complete works of Shakespeare? Why do you ask? The expected value for the length of time it would take any one to locate and identify the monkey is unbounded, and so the fact it has not been located by now is of no value in disproving that given enough monkeys and enough time, one of them will produce the complete work of Shakespeare.
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From: wen-...@myri.com (Wen-King Su) Subject: Re: Bible codes Date: 1997/10/05 Message-ID: <618k1l$ef@neptune.myri.com> X-Deja-AN: 278645469 References: <3436B10E.5DD7@xmission.com> Organization: Myricom Inc. Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa,sci.skeptic,sci.math,comp.misc,alt.folklore.science,alt.folklore.computers,alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.jewish,talk.religion.misc,talk.religion.newage,alt.bible.prophecy,alt.atheism,alt.christnet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit