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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.

Kevin Johnson <ke...@mercury.ig.utexas.edu> wrote in article
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> Bongo the Chimp (ook...@fbc.org) wrote:
> : Kevin D. Quitt <Ke...@Quitt.net> 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?
> 
> : It's true.  I tried it.  Every time I tried, I'd misspell something and
> : have to start over.  And the spelling flames!
> 
> "Here, Homer, are a thousand monkeys typing on a thousand typewriters.
> Eventually, they will type a great novel. (Grabs a sheet fresh off one
> of the typewriters) (Reading) It was the best of times... It was the
> BLURST OF TIMES! Stupid Monkey! (Bangs monkey on head)"
>         -- Monty Burns
> 
> :-) 
> 
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> Kevin Johnson				University of Texas
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