Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 04:05:19 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: M-TH: Marx's monkey writer


On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Shane Mage wrote:

> Hate to disappoint any aspiring literary monkeys, but the "enough time"
> would have to be a very large multiple of the largest estimated life-span
> of our present universe.


Good point.  I assume that is why Huxley's original formulation -- which 
mentioned only a finite number of monkeys-with-typewriters with plenty of 
time on their hands -- has been adjusted over the years, with the 
retelling, to "an infinite number of monkeys ..."  As I recall, Th. 
Huxley indicated that they would also type out the Bible and the Magna Carta 
in the process.    


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