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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....

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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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