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Coincidence? (Vanity)
VMIVol'00

Posted on 09/10/2004 3:53:57 PM PDT by vmivol00

This reminds me of when my students hand me something they have copied and pasted from the internet. They try to turn it in as their own work, and when confronted explain that it is just a big coincidence that it is exactly the same.

So is the spacing and word wrapping being the same as an MS Word document just another big coincidence?

To me this is the most compelling evidence.


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1 posted on 09/10/2004 3:53:57 PM PDT by vmivol00
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To: vmivol00

I seem to remember a statistical case study involving a large number of monkeys with typewriters producing a novel.

CBS is a fairly large organization....

;)


2 posted on 09/10/2004 5:25:38 PM PDT by RangerM (Perhaps he was comfortable within his skin)
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To: RangerM

I think that was debunked. I seem to remember reading on FR that after a significant amount of time the chimps didn't get a single word. Chimps are not random letter generators. They might just hit the same key hundreds of times simple because they like the key.


3 posted on 09/11/2004 7:39:18 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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