Re: Jewish Music Definition

[Seth Austen <klezmusic...>]

on 5/4/01 4:42 PM, Peter Rushefsky at Rushefsky_P (at) univerahealthcare(dot)org
wrote:

> Actually, if you truely had an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite
> number of typewriters, you would have a 100% chance that at least one would
> produce the complete works of Shakespeare.  Sorry, I was a
> statistics/probability major in college.
> 
>>>> L_Cahan 05/04 3:40 PM >>>
> I think that if you have an infinite number of monkeys on typewriters you
> will still
> have an infinite amount of gibberish.  None will ever write Shakespeare,
> because we
> are not talking about monkeys who refer to each others work in order to not
> duplicate
> it.


You might enjoy the following quote I just found earlier this week.

"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters
will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to
the Internet, we know this is not true."

Disclaimer, This is NOT directed at anyone on this list, as the general tone
of discourse and intellect of this list is at a much higher level than most
internet forums!

gut shabes

Seth

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