[thelist] [OT] million monkeys (was: Spam traps)

Ben Phillips ben at inchima.com
Fri Apr 19 10:45:00 CDT 2002


> Which has shown to be false. Someone actually set this up.
> They said it would take a million years, 24 hours a day, for
> a million monkeys to come up with "To be, or not to be, that
> is the question."

it's a theoretical statement. course, they might die first. but if you
give anything infinite amount of time, every possible occurence will
occur. so the monkeys will produce a line of shakespeare if they had an
infinite amount of time to do it.

got a feeling this could produce a whole load of tips...

<tip type="instant messaging" author="benji">
do you have overseas clients? don't want to spend a *fortune* on
telephone calls. get instant messaging!
</tip>

benji
inchima.com





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