Bob Newhart | Ian Andrew Bell https://ianbell.com Ian Bell's opinions are his own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Ian Bell Thu, 09 Mar 2000 22:57:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://i0.wp.com/ianbell.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/cropped-electron-man.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Bob Newhart | Ian Andrew Bell https://ianbell.com 32 32 28174588 Fwd: Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite https://ianbell.com/2000/03/09/fwd-infinite-monkey-protocol-suite/ Thu, 09 Mar 2000 22:57:05 +0000 https://ianbell.com/2000/03/09/fwd-infinite-monkey-protocol-suite/ Abstract > > This draft describes a protocol suite which supports an infinite > […]]]> Word on the street is that Silicon Valley has picked up on Sir Arthur Eddington’s “Infinite Monkey” theorem. I smell .COM!

More on the theorem: http://t2r.uwasa.fi/jargon/infinite_monkey_theorem.html

RealAudio from Bob Newhart’s Infinite Monkeys experiment: http://www.comedyradio.net/act/newhart/bob-infinite.monkeys.html

The IETF Infinite Monkeys Protocol Draft: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-christey-imps-00.txt

>Abstract
>
> This draft describes a protocol suite which supports an infinite
> number of monkeys that sit at an infinite number of typewriters in
> order to determine when they have either produced the entire works
> of William Shakespeare or a good television show. The suite
> includes communications and control protocols for monkeys and the
> organizations that interact with them.

-Ian.

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