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To: tortoise
""This argument is actually quite sound -- given enough time and enough monkeys, one could eventually produce "Hamlet" by accident."

The author highlighted "could" to mock just how improbable that was, even given 17 Billion years of trying.

You've gone down in flames. The math has ruled against you!

325 posted on 03/04/2002 10:47:02 PM PST by Southack
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To: Southack
The author highlighted "could" to mock just how improbable that was, even given 17 Billion years of trying.

I do believe you are grasping at straws. This is a ridiculously weak comeback to a rather decisive point I made. When you start referencing math texts, I'll listen.

327 posted on 03/04/2002 10:50:58 PM PST by tortoise
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