Mxx Observation

We used to call that the "infinite monkey theorem", which has since been
diproved by the internet.

No it hasn't. The "war" part is being written right now, in this
newsgroup.

Jose
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Unless you meant that as a joke about the people using the internet ,
the infinite monkey theorem holds true from a purely mathematical
standpoint. IIRC, number of keystrokes that would likely be required
to produce any book would be several orders of magnitude greater than
the number of atoms in the universe, but when working with purely
theoretical statistics those types of things don't matter.

If the monkey truly had infinite time, and hit the keys completely
randomly *eventually* he'd type anything you choose . As a matter
of fact, eventually he would not only write Hamlet (the piece usually
described), but eventually he'd reproduce every work Shakespeare wrote,
in the order he wrote them, and then provide what would look like some
interesting commentary behind them . He'd also eventually type out
this very discussion we're having ourselves too .

Mike Gaskins

Al G wrote:
We used to call that the "infinite monkey theorem", which has since been
diproved by the internet.

Al G

("Dudley Henriques" wrote)
Sort of like the old axiom that says;
"If you sit a chimp down in front of a typewriter and let him bang away,
sooner or later if he dosen't run out of food he'll manage to write War
and Peace :-)


From The Simpsons:

Last Exit to Springfield (...one of the best Simpsons episodes)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Exit_to_Springfield

Mr. Burns: This is a thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters.
Soon, they'll have written the greatest novel known to mankind. (reads one
of the typewriters) "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times"?!
You stupid monkey! (monkey screeches) Oh, shut up.

One of my favorite Simpsons lines:

The Front (Season 4)
http://www.citizenlunchbox.com/monkey/tv/simpsons.php

Itchy & Scratchy's Roger Meyers shouts at his Harvard-graduate writer, "You
call this writing?!? If I puked in a fountain pen & mailed it to the monkey
house I'd get better scripts!"


Montblanana :-)

Priceless!! :-)) "Tis a far better thing I do than I ever did........
yesterday"

Dudley Henriques


"Montblack" wrote in message
...
("Dudley Henriques" wrote)
Sort of like the old axiom that says;
"If you sit a chimp down in front of a typewriter and let him bang away,
sooner or later if he dosen't run out of food he'll manage to write War
and Peace :-)


From The Simpsons:

Last Exit to Springfield (...one of the best Simpsons episodes)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Exit_to_Springfield

Mr. Burns: This is a thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters.
Soon, they'll have written the greatest novel known to mankind. (reads one
of the typewriters) "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of
times"?!
You stupid monkey! (monkey screeches) Oh, shut up.

One of my favorite Simpsons lines:

The Front (Season 4)
http://www.citizenlunchbox.com/monkey/tv/simpsons.php

Itchy & Scratchy's Roger Meyers shouts at his Harvard-graduate writer,
"You
call this writing?!? If I puked in a fountain pen & mailed it to the
monkey
house I'd get better scripts!"


Montblanana :-)

Montblanana :-)

Sliced, diced, and puried no doubt.
Jim

Dudley Henriques wrote:
Sort of like the old axiom that says;
"If you sit a chimp down in front of a typewriter and let him bang away,
sooner or later if he dosen't run out of food he'll manage to write War and
Peace :-)

There are some who say that the Internet is absolute proof that
thousands of chimps typing away will NOT eventually create great novels
;-)

Kev

"Kev" wrote in message
ups.com...

Dudley Henriques wrote:
Sort of like the old axiom that says;
"If you sit a chimp down in front of a typewriter and let him bang away,
sooner or later if he dosen't run out of food he'll manage to write War
and
Peace :-)

There are some who say that the Internet is absolute proof that
thousands of chimps typing away will NOT eventually create great novels
;-)

Kev

There's a great story I like about James A. Mitchener.
The story goes that he was in grade school and was late one day. The teacher
told him that the next day he would have to show up with a note from his
mother.
Not to be undone, the story goes that Mitchener wrote his own note and the
next day handed it to the teacher.
She began to read,
"In the beginning of it all, dinosaurs roamed the earth and there was an
upheaval of fire upon the land"
"James", she said, .........is this going to be a long story?"

DH

Al,

With these exchanges, I have
accepted the "New Knowledge" offered, and I no longer wonder.


Better do. He is an American living there.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)