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From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: Monkeys and Typewriters
Message-ID: <1664@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Feb-86 18:35:43 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 15 18:35:43 1986
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References: <101@hplabsc.UUCP> <717@bonnie.UUCP>
Reply-To: mmar@sphinx.UUCP (Mitchell Marks)
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In article <717@bonnie.UUCP> wjh@bonnie.UUCP (Bill Hery) writes:
>>  [Original request from hplabsc was:]
>> 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.

I can't find it in The Mathematical Magpie, so if Bill Hery was right,
try Fadiman's other collection, Fantasia Mathematica.

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