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From: drew@ukma.UUCP (Andrew Lawson)
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Subject: Re: alive computers (HAL_from_IBM_P)
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In article <339@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU> vis@trillian.UUCP (Tom Courtney) writes:
>possibilities (HAL, SAL, SAM, ART, etc... [not ETC]). Furthermore, after the fact,
>lots of things look like the odds were too horrendous to be coincidence.

Yes, remember that the odds of a given deck of cards being in exactly
the order that they are is 1 in 52! (:-) Don't abuse probability.

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Drew Lawson
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