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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)