Improbability - OT <was So much for colleagues, so much for integrity>

Barrie Heaton piano@a440.co.uk
Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:59:23 +0000


In message <006b01c28b3d$43028620$038ad883@nevada.edu>, Robert Goodale
<rrg@unlv.edu> writes
>> It was once said that a million monkeys with a million typewriters would
>> re-create the works of Shakespeare....
>>     ..... the Internet has disproved that, no?
>>
>> Guy
>
>That was the late Douglas Adams, author of the Hitch Hikers Guide to the
>Galaxy series.  It was an illustration of the "Improbability Drive", a possible
>outcome of infinite improbability.  The idea that anything is possible no
>matter how improbable given an infinate amount of time to complete the
>task.

The same guy who gave us Babble Fish Universal Translators which in
André case if used,  was missed used and  did not do a good job.



Barrie,

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