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To: Navy Patriot
Imagine that you are given the goal of creating the complete works of William Shakespeare.

I feel compelled to relate the old Stanley Myron Handelman bit on this subject. He reports that he had heard that a roomful of monkeys with typewriters would eventually accomplish this feat, so he decided to try, and put the monkeys in a room with typewriters. After a while he decided to see how they were doing, and looked in. To his chagrin, "... they weren't typing! They were just messing around in there!"

48 posted on 12/15/2012 11:15:48 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew

You need to gain a greater understanding math and probabilities.


50 posted on 12/15/2012 11:25:47 PM PST by Zeneta (Why are so many people searching for something that has already found us ?)
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To: dr_lew
LOL, of course I was using that to try to show how much chaos would have to occur compared to how little order was necessary to create higher development.

Moving to the science of logic, Occam's Razor predicts that the most simple explanation is the most likely one.

That's probably why ya can't get the monkeys to type.

53 posted on 12/15/2012 11:34:27 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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