Re: VMs: Long-range correlations

["Dennis S." <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

From: Milo Velimirovic 

>"If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing 
>at random, they would reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet in 
>about ... five minutes."

   But isn't that what Usenet is?  ;-)

   Seriously.  Bennett ran the numbers on the monkeys and Shakespeare, and found out that in the expected lifetime of the universe, they would produce very little Shakespeare.  

   There was once a demo of this on the University of Tasmania's website.

Dennis

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