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RE: RE: Be a monkey!by KM (Priest) |
on Aug 30, 2000 at 22:02 UTC ( [id://30360]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
More like a few days, assuming a fairly regular typing rate. :) You should take a look at all the mathematical theories on this. The question is when would one monkey type it, not the collection of monkeys. Another fun read on this (which does give a number of monkeys if you wanted a 50% chance of them typing it within 24 hours) is here (not for mathaphobics!). If it could be done in a few days, I say we start cloning some simians! One other point, ispell might not have a lot of Shakespeare's words. Perhaps a program to create a list of only those words from a Shakespeare play? :) Yes, I thought of that. There must be a dictionary around which he used. But, lines like 'To be or not to be' could be from ispell. I simply wonder how much computing time would be needed for one of the monkeys to type any cohesive sentence :) create a perl script and periodically eval'ing the result? I simply use grep on my log file.
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