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From: wjh@bonnie.UUCP (Bill Hery)
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Subject: Re: Monkeys and Typewriters
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Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 18:11:08 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 14 18:11:08 1986
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> 
> I've been trying to remember for several years who wrote the story
> about the monkey-typewriter experiment.  I read it in an anthology,
> but I don't remember which.  I occasionally do a library search of
> short-story collections, but I never find it, so now I'm ready to
> ask for help.  Who wrote the darned thing?
> 
I don't remeber the author off hand, but I can point you to an anthology
which contains it.  Clifton Fadiman editted two anthologies of
short stories, poems and cartoons related to mathematical themes;
one was "the Mathematical Magpie," but I don't recall the name of the
other.  The story you refer to was in one of these two books.