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6 Sep 2024 07:19:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Weekly calibration  
From: Mueen Nawaz
Date: 20 Apr 2009 15:12:31
Message: <49ecc91f$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>   Since there is an infinite amount of different finite sequences of
> letters, the probability of one specific sequence (in this case the works
> of Shakespeare) to appear is, mathematically speaking, zero.

	If you _specify_ exactly some sequence containing Shakespeare's works,
then yes - it is 0 to get that particular sequence.

	However, there are _infinitely_ many infinite sequences that contain
the works of Shakespeare...

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