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2 unusual facts about Infinite monkey theorem


Infinite monkey theorem

In his 1931 book The Mysterious Universe, Eddington's rival James Jeans attributed the monkey parable to a "Huxley", presumably meaning Thomas Henry Huxley.

Computer science professors George Marsaglia and Arif Zaman report that they used to call one such category of tests "overlapping m-tuple tests" in lecture, since they concern overlapping m-tuples of successive elements in a random sequence.


British Museum algorithm

:"... since it seemed to them as sensible as placing monkeys in front of typewriters in order to reproduce all the books in the British Museum."


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