Re: Bible codes

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From: Tom Harrington
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 00:00

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Jacob Love (jl...@engin.umich.edu) wrote:

: In other words, the whole long-winded nonsense is simily a lengthy
: demonstration of the infamous statistical point that if 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.  I don't know what implications this fact may have for
the alleged Bible codes.

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From: tph@longhorn.uucp (Tom Harrington)
Subject: Re: Bible codes
Date: 1997/09/18
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