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6 Sep 2024 05:17:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Weekly calibration  
From: nemesis
Date: 20 Apr 2009 13:42:30
Message: <49ecb406@news.povray.org>
Warp escreveu:
> nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> Yep, completely missing the point:  it's just a thought experiment of 
>> sorts.  They should get more luck from a computer simulation  with 
>> cellular automata and let it run for a few millenia on common alphabet. 
>>   Eventually scanning through the generated texts we could see out of 
>> order streams resembling the complete works, mangled among gibberish.
> 
>   I think sampling the noise produced by a resistor would be a better
> way of simulating the "monkeys".

BTW, I think there's the complete works of Shakespeare among the 
billions of usenet posts since its inception.  Google Groups might index 
it. :)

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