colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (01/03/87)
> >A modified quote resulting in "all of William Shakepeares Works" > >was in either the book "How to Lie with Statistics" or its > >companion volume whose title I have forgotten. ... > > No, that quote is not from Darrell Huff's classic work, > now in its 36th printing. Huff never discusses combinatorics. > [REF] Huff, Derrell, "How To Lie With Statistics", New York, ... Take it easy! The "companion volume" is called _How to Take a Chance._ If I remember right, there's a chimp typewriting on the dust jacket.... (But I doubt that Huff gives the ur-reference.) Is Russell Maloney still alive? He might know. (He wrote the classic "Inflexible Logic.") "... they're still at it. Haven't spoiled a sheet of paper yet." -- Col. G. L. Sicherman UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel CS: colonel@buffalo-cs BI: colonel@sunybcs, csdsiche@ubvms
colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (01/26/87)
) ) ... Huxley claimed that given "enough" time, an Earth full of monkeys
) ) could type the works of Shakespeare."
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) This would be T. H. Huxley, in the 1860's, I believe, ...
Typewriters in the 1860s?
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