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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re: Monkey business
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Date: Fri, 15-Nov-85 06:19:12 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 15 06:19:12 1985
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In case it is still not clear what I mean by
unstable, in the idealized monkey experiment,
assuming the monkey is a very slow climber,
if you were to perform the experiment 10,000
times, the monkey would reach the top before
the counterweight 5,000 (plus or minus 100)
times, the counterweight would get there
first in all the other cases, and the two
would never reach the top simultaneously.

Does that help?

(That's what you get for postulating such
silly conditions in such delicate balance.)