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I refer to the old fable that if you set enough monkeys at enough keyboards for a long enough period of time, they will (through random typing), reproduce the "Complete Works of Shakespeare," or an...
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plagiarism
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T02:48:07Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/7571 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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Tom Au
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2019-12-08T02:48:07Z (over 4 years ago)
I refer to the old fable that if you set enough monkeys at enough keyboards for a long enough period of time, they will (through random typing), reproduce the "Complete Works of Shakespeare," or any other tome. Is it likely that someone will "copy" someone else's "[five consecutive words](https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/7546)" through a random process? Or is that a high enough bar that it takes some "doing" to copy it?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2013-04-04T21:50:56Z (about 11 years ago)
Original score: 1