Monkeys with typewriters

topic posted Wed, March 3, 2004 - 10:07 AM by  Sherlock
Richard Huxley postulated that if a monkey was left alone with a typewriter long enough, it would eventually, through random typing, produce the collected works of shakespeare. A recent experiment proved that monkeys are a little more complex than Huxley supposed. A computer was left in a primate cage. First the lead male bashed the hell out of it. After that, they all started urinating and defacating on it. Eventually (and a few computers later I imagine), the monkeys managed to produce a couple of pages of "text". It was dominated by the letter s. Hey, that's the first letter of Shakespeare's name, it's a start I suppose. I guess Monkeys don't make very good random generators.
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